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Scott Fahlman invented the :-) smiley at Carnegie Mellon in 1982, three days after a joke mercury-spill warning was taken seriously

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Scott Fahlman invented the :-) smiley at Carnegie Mellon in 1982, three days after a joke mercury-spill warning was taken seriously

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