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A Computer Science Professor Invented the Emoticon After a Joke Went Wrong

Friday November 21, 2025. 01:00 PM , from Wired: Tech.
In 1982, Carnegie Mellon University professor Scott Fahlman suggested using:-) for humorous comments after his colleagues took a joke about mercury seriously.
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