Happy birthday :-)

Yesterday was the 25th birthday of the digital smiley face, which was invented by a professor at Carnegie Mellon University to help express humor in computer messages.

The smiley face, formed by the characters : – ) viewed sideways, was the first-ever “emoticon.”

According to the Associated Press, Professor Scott E. Fahlman posted the emoticon in a message to an online electronic bulletin board at 11:44 a.m. on Sept. 19, 1982, during a discussion about online humor.

“I propose the following character sequence for joke markers: :-),” wrote Fahlman. “Read it sideways.”

And the rest was history.

Today, there are dozens of different emoticons used in e-mail and text messaging to communicate everything from happiness to sadness to anger.

On Boyslife.org, some of the emoticons are automatically converted to images.

For example:

🙂 😀 🙁 😮 😯 😕 😎 😡 😛 😐 😉 😆 😳 😥 👿 😈 🙄 ❗ ❓ 💡 ➡ :mrgreen:

See if you can figure out how to make these in the comment section, and then post your favorite emoticons.

70 Comments

  1. I propose to make a key so that everyone can use them. I know it takes away the challenge, but let’s face it: What’s the point of an emoticon if you can’t use it? The ones I have question marks by, I don’t know if they’re right.

    🙂 : – )

    😀 : D

    🙁 : – (

    :O : O ?

  2. To make the smilie you just do this : grin : but do not put spaces between the colin and the word grin I just did it so you could see it!

    😀

  3. Hint: For all those who would like to know how to do certain smiley faces, mouse over the face, and a little box should appear. The box should say what you type to make the smiley.

    Try it on these!

    🙂 😀 🙁 😮 😯 😕 😎 😛 😡 😐 😉 😆 😳 😥 👿 😈 🙄 ❗ ❓ 💡 ➡ :mrgreen:

    However, on some of them you can make the faces without typing words In between the colins. For instace: 🙂 🙁 😮 😛 😀 8) 😉 .

    The Hello Help Department

  4. 🙂 🙁 😛 8) 😀 😮 😕 😯 😡 😐 😉 😆 😳 😥 👿 😈 🙄 ❗ ❓ 💡 ➡ :mrgreen:

    Yeah I did it! 🙂 LOL

  5. This was so easy! 🙂 😮 It was a (shock) 😯 to be so easy. I get 😡 if I mess up! Or I go (oops) 😳 and 😥 (yeah right!) (grin, lol) 😀 😆 The 👿 and 😈 ones are 😎

    Good Luck, and Have Fun ❗ 😉

  6. hey, try to figure out how to do the ones like this 🙂 not like this 🙂

    (put the mouse over them to see what I mean)

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