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From an MSNBC report about the first time the smiley emoticon was used:

“At 11:44 a.m. on September 19, 1982, a man named Scott Fahlman posted a message to an electronic computer-science department bulletin board at Carnegie Mellon University. And with that simple action he did something wonderful: He became the individual who would later be credited as the inventor of :-), an ASCII-based emoticon.”

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Ten years after the Smiley was born, Jessica Yu captured a different expression in “Sour Death Balls”:

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