The emoticon, punctuation to depict a facial expression, began 30 years ago this week. Using three keystrokes, the colon, dash and parenthesis, to suggest a smile may not be a great scientific advance ...

Today, everybody knows that combination of a colon, dash and parenthesis is a smiley face. Until 32 years ago this week, that's all it was, a series of nonsensical punctuation. Then, Scott Fahlman, a ...

Happy birthday to the emoticon -- the sideways smiley-face that changed the way we communicate emotion online.Consisting of three keyboard strokes (colon, hyphen, close parentheses), the popular ...

The sideways "smiley face", often referred to as the first emoticon, turns thirty years old today. Scott E. Fahlman came up with the idea during a bulletin board post on September 19, 1982 as a way to ...