| A type of
emoticon that lets you show how you're
feeling by using symbols to create faces, such as :).
The first use of a smiley is
currently attributed to Scott E. Fahlman, who in a posting on Sept.
19, 1982, wrote "I propose the following character sequence for joke
markers :-)." Fahlman noted that smile had to be read sideways. The
original smiley led to the creation of many other facial expressions
built with keyboard characters as well as the invention of the term
emoticon to describe them all. |
