:) Turns 25

I don't know why I post about these things, but I do. The "emoticon" or :) as we know turns 25 tomorrow. 25 years ago professor Scott E. Fahlman first used the computer "smiley face"
by posting to an online e-bulletin board at 11:44 a.m. on September 19, 1982.

I don't know whether to commend him or say how annoying this whole "emoticon" thing has gotten and then out of hand usage of short hand words like "LOL". Kill yourself. And he is smiling like a goomba.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/09/18/emoticon.anniversary.ap/index.html