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Tuesday, September 18, 2007 03:30:08 AM

TECHHOLOGY

The Digital Smiley Face Turns 25

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The computer smiley face is celebrating a birthday this week.

It was 25 years ago that a professor at Carnegie Mellon University in the United States placed a colon, a hyphen and a parenthesis together to make a horizontal smiley face.

Since that time, the well-known emoticon has appeared in millions of emails and other electronic messages.

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