Smiley :-) turned 30 years old

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September 19, 1982 - Scott Falman, a professor at the Pittsburgh Computer School, invented this symbol. The presence of emoticons helped to distinguish serious messages from jokes, since they were supposed to be used on the bulletin board (bboard) of the Carnegie Institute. Now, the Internet uses emoticons :-) and :-( to indicate emotions on the web.

At the same time, Falman did a lot of useful things during his career, but he became known to the masses only thanks to a smiley.
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Quote from wiki:

19-Sep-82 11:44 Scott E Fahlman :-) From: Scott E Fahlman <Fahlman at Cmu-20c> 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 : -( 

2006-2011 - Pittsburgh Computer School gives the symbol the Smiley Award (outstanding innovations that improve the process of communicating with computers).

Word of the author.