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HAPPY BELATED BIRTHDAY SMILEY 🙂
I found this on the hotmail logon page:
A Microsoft researcher has apparently rediscovered the first (on Sept. 19, 1982) known computerized instance of a "smiley," the combination of characters used to signify a smile in e-mail and bulletin boards.
The smiley has spawned a whole range of emoticons, as they are now known, since its appearance on a bulletin board discussion at Carnegie Mellon University in 1982. Emoticons have become an important part of the worldwide online social culture because they make it easy to communicate emotions quickly--something that many people find difficult to express using words.