The famous ':-)' emoticon, that is used by web and text users all over the globe, has marked its 30th birthday.
The computer symbol for "not serious" or now more generally "happiness," made up of a colon, dash and a right parenthesis, was born into existence at 11:44 a.m. on September 19, 1982, after it was posted on an online bulletin board by Carnegie Mellon Computer Scientist Scott Fahlman
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