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| | Smiley Lore :-) |
 | | Yes, I am the inventor of the sideways “smiley face” (sometimes called an “emoticon”) that is commonly used in E-mail, chat, and newsgroup posts. |
| | Many people have denounced the very idea of the smiley face, pointing out that good writers should have no need to explicitly label their humorous comments. |
| | So, the smiley idea may have appeared and disappeared a few times before my 1982 post, but it is pretty clear from the timing that my suggestion was the one that finally took hold, spread around the world, and spawned thousands of variations. |
| www.cs.cmu.edu /~sef/sefSmiley.htm (1585 words) |
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