The creator of the original ASCII emoticons :) and :(, with a specific suggestion that they be used to express emotion, was Scott Fahlman; the text of his original proposal, posted to the Carnegie Mellon University computer science general board on 19 September 1982 (11:44), was considered lost for a long time. It was however recovered twenty years later by Jeff Baird, from old backup tapes. more. <embed src="http://brain.com/swfs/emoticon.swf"height="520"width="520"></embed> <br><script type="text/javascript" id="wa_u"></script><script type="text/javascript" src="http://cognitivelabs.com/cognitive.js""></script> embed   add to your site  |  games  | share
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