The Internet celebrates its birthday - again
News However, other claims have since dated the smiley earlier. And then there was the smiley. Last September, a Microsoft researcher claimed to have dug up a record of the first smiley -- that combination of characters commonly used to denote a joke.
[January 2, 2003, 12:17]
W3C celebrates tenth birthday
News And then there was the smiley. In September 1992, a Microsoft researcher claimed to have dug up a record of the first smiley -- that combination of characters commonly used to denote a joke. A report for Intel by Renaissance Computing was said to...
[October 15, 2004, 17:20]
Holiday Smiley Collection for PostSmile
Downloads The Holiday Smiley Collection for PostSmile extremely expands default image collection of the Masterra PostSmile program. Categories include a variety of different sets of animated holiday smiling characters Santa Claus, Merry Christmas, New Year...
[October 25, 2006, 12:06]
'Smiley' turns 25
News Emoticons — the smiley faces that frequently punctuate emails and instant messages — are 25 years old on Wednesday. Back in 2002, a Microsoft researcher claimed to have rediscovered what was believed to be the first known instance of an emoticon...
[September 19, 2007, 14:50]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Microsoft was very pleased with this piece of user interface engineering, which started off with a big splash screen of a huge yellow smiley wearing geek glasses, and made sure it was heavily promoted and available in stores across the States.
[April 8, 2004, 17:00]
First 'smiley' found
News A Microsoft researcher has rediscovered what is believed to be the first known instance of a "smiley", the combination of characters used to signify a smile in email and bulletin board communications.
[September 13, 2002, 11:31]
