The smiles (or emoction) are reproductions of our smiling faces (or sad, stunned, etc. ..)
"The birth of the first emoticon is highly controversial. The first ever seems to have been used to 12 April 1979 by a certain Kevin MacKenzie [1] in an e-mail sent to members MsgGroup (one of the first BBS) in which he suggested to introduce some sentiment in the cold text message; for example, recommends using a hyphen preceded by a parenthesis (ie ")-") to indicate a tongue but the proposal was criticized by most.
According to research by Mike Jonesun the Carnegie Mellon School of Computer Science dating back to February 2002, the first emoticon would be used on 19 September 1982 in a message appeared in a BBS of Carnegie Mellon University a certain Scott E. Fahlman to underline the ironic sentence because of his often humorous comment was not taken for that and gave rise to endless discussions. This time the proposal was unsuccessful. Scott later regretted not having kept the message because it did not seem so important at the time but was later recovered from a backup tape.
For others, the emoticon is merely a style of smiley created by Harvey R. Ball very popular in the seventies and eighty .
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