It's really quite amazing." The smiley face emoticon was first used in a post by Professor Scott E Fahlman to the Carnegie Mellon University computer science general board in 1982, Dr Churches added.

PITTSBURGH — Happy birthday to the emoticon -- the sideways smiley-face that changed the way we communicate emotion online. Consisting of three keyboard strokes (colon, hyphen, close parentheses ...

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The smiley face emoticon was first placed in a post to the Carnegie Mellon University computer science general board by Professor Scott E. Fahlman in 1982.

It's a happy day on Mercury - a smiley face has been spotted beaming from a crater. Nasa has revealed a new image showing a crater that looks uncannily like the 'smiley face' emoticon.

Well, Rorshach certainly didn't see that coming. But you could call it a happy case of brain conditioning :) A new study has found the use of emoticons since the 1980s has reprogrammed people's brains ...