Today marks the 26th birthday of Emoticons which was first created by Scott Fahlman, a Carnegie Mellon University Professor, who posted a bulletin in response to a message on an electronic bulletin board from the computer-science department. The original use was intended to be used as a marker to differentiate between joke-based bulletins and those that are not jokes in order to avoid misunderstandings. Visit Wired.com to read the original post.
Thanks Scott 🙂