Tuesday, September 18, 2007

OMG: Twenty-five years ago today, Carnegie Mellon professor Scott Fahlman posted the following on a university bulletin board:
I propose that the following character sequence for joke markers:

:-)

Read it sideways. Actually, it is probably more economical to mark things that are NOT jokes, given current trends. For this, use

:-(
Happy birthday, Smiley!

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