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The first smiley

There’s a big discussion going on at the moment as to the sighting of the first smiley – :-). Apparently this is the earliest known modern version anyway (from 19 September 1982).

So I suppose that makes tomorrow the 20th anniversary of the emoticon. Whew!

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