The Emoticon Turns 30 :-) Check out Megan Garber’s tale of the 1982 Carnegie Mellon bulletin board discussion between physicists that spawned the emoticon. The reason? Someone couldn’t figure out how to make sure their physics joke wasn’t taken too seriously. So :-) was born.  (via The Atlantic)
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The Emoticon Turns 30 :-)

Check out Megan Garber’s tale of the 1982 Carnegie Mellon bulletin board discussion between physicists that spawned the emoticon. The reason? Someone couldn’t figure out how to make sure their physics joke wasn’t taken too seriously.

So :-) was born. 

(via The Atlantic)

Source: The Atlantic

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