Congestion charge for spam?
News Under the proposal, concocted by IBM researchers Scott Fahlman and Mark Wegman, email senders who haven't been cleared by a recipient would receive a message that their mail did not go through. What we're proposing is to change the rules of email...
[March 27, 2003, 9:31]
The evolution of emoticons
News The text-based smiley face appears to have been invented by Scott Fahlman, a research professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon University. In a post to a university discussion group in September 1982, Fahlman proposed the crucial insight of...
[March 12, 2004, 12:35]
'Smiley' turns 25
News In a posting made by Scott E Fahlman on 19 September, 1982, the crucial :-) symbol turned up. I propose the following character sequence for joke markers :-)," wrote Fahlman at the time. Emoticons — the smiley faces that frequently punctuate emails...
[September 19, 2007, 14:50]
First 'smiley' found
News Fahlman. The first use of the characters :-) to signify a smile was, believes Jones, in a posting made on 19 September, 1982, by Scott E. A Microsoft researcher has rediscovered what is believed to be the first known instance of a "smiley", the...
[September 13, 2002, 11:31]
The Internet celebrates its birthday - again
News Fahlman on 19 September, 1982. The one that Jones found was posted in a bulletin board discussion at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) by one Scott E. Bob Braden, who posted the claim on a mailing list of the Internet Engineering TaskForce this week...
[January 2, 2003, 12:17]
