Twenty-five years ago, Carnegie Mellon University professor Scott E. Fahlman says, he was the first to use three keystrokes — a colon followed by a hyphen and a parenthesis — as a horizontal "smiley ...

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May 27, 2013— -- intro: Emoticons can help us to either completely lose our minds or retain our sanity as we communicate with one another online and through texts. While a passive aggressive ...

Happy birthday, sideways smiley face! Wednesday marks the 30th birthday of the emoticon. The computer symbol for “not serious” or now more generally “happiness,” made up of a colon, dash and a right ...

Happy Holidays and Happy New Year! Guaranteed to place a "smile on your face" are these resolutions for the New Year: No more partisan political messages dividing America, and an Rx for 2022: One ...

The triple conjunction is expected during the early hours of April 25, 2025. The conjunction will be turned on its side in the early morning hours. Early risers, you could glimpse a "smiley face" in ...