Tuesday, September 18, 2007

Silver Jubilee of :-)

Can any of you deny the fact that :-) had become a part of the email/chat room emoticons? Nay.. A gist on its history here...

Carnegie Mellon's prof Scott E Fahlman is the founder of this emoticon. He was the first one to use the three keystrokes a colon, a dash and a bracket.

Most of us know that this symbolises a smiley face. Basically these emoticons act as a channel for emoting oneself when you don't have the voice.

Almost in all the mails I use this one. Even my blogs have them.
To mark the silver jubilee of :-), am ending this blog with a series of .....
:):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):)

I wish everyone get atleast one :) today. Do you have one of them in your emails??? Check it out!!! :)

1 Comments:

At September 18, 2007 at 6:26 PM , Anonymous Anonymous said...

Very informative. Though I use it more often, I have never thot of its origin. Good research. :-))))))

 

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