The emoticon was created in 1982 by Scott Fahlman as a way to mark jokes in online messages. It is considered one of the first internet memes to ever exist.
There are people who fell in love over text in the early days of the internet.
No video calls. No voice messages. No photos.
Just words.
And :-)
That symbol did more emotional heavy lifting than we ever gave it credit for.
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#DYK: This wk in 1979 Kevin MacKenzie suggested emotion be added into the dry text medium of email by using -) to indicate something was tongue-in-cheek. Though flamed by many, #emoticons became widely used in '82 after Scott Fahlman suggested the use of :-) and :-(
In 1982 the world was cold.
Cold War. Nuclear fear. Uncertainty everywhere.
And in the middle of all of that, a professor at Carnegie Mellon sat down and created a smile.
Not a weapon. Not a manifesto. Not a warning.
A smile.
:-) was an act of quiet defiance against a heavy world.
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