Carthik Sharma

Thursday, September 19, 2002

I got the link for this from the infojunkies group.

It was on this day, 20 years ago, that the smiley first smiled, thanks to one Mr. Fahlmann, an IBM researcher..

read all about the origin of the smileys in this article at CNN

Filed by Carthik at 3:33 pm under Livejournal

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