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:-) – The Digital Smiley Turns 25

Bagi setiap orang yang pernah chatting, posting ataupun berkirim email, rasanya tidak mungkin untuk tidak kenal lambang senyum yang satu ini.

Pernahkah anda berpikir darimana datangnya dan sejak kapan lambang tersebut digunakan?

Ternyata pada tanggal 19 September 2007, senyum tersebut sudah melanglang buana di dunia maya selama seperempat abad!!

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Pittsburgh: We have all seen it at some point in our lives: A colon followed by a hyphen and a parenthesis – :-). It has been twenty-five years since US-based professor Scott Fahlman of Carnegie Mellon University first used the three keystrokes as a “horizontal smiley face” in a computer message.

To mark the anniversary, Fahlman and his colleagues are starting an annual student contest for innovation in technology-assisted, person-to-person communication, dubbed ‘The Smiley Award’.

Language experts say the smiley face and other emotional icons, known as emoticons, have given people a concise way in email and other electronic messages of expressing sentiments.

Fahlman first posted the emoticon in a message to an online electronic bulletin board on Sept 19, 1982, while discussing the limits of online humour and how to denote comments meant to be taken lightly.

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

Fahlman’s smileys spread from the campus to other universities, then businesses and eventually around the world as the Internet gained popularity.

Today, instant messaging programs often contain an array of emoticons to express a range of emotions.

Amy Weinberg, a University of Maryland linguist and computer scientist, said emoticons such as the smiley were “definitely creeping into the way, both in business and academia, people communicate.”

“It has been fascinating to watch this phenomenon grow from a little message I tossed off in 10 minutes to something that has spread all around the world,” Fahlman said.

 Untuk melihat seperti apa pesan asli yang menjadi moment kelahiran lambang senyum ini, silahkan dilihat di:
http://research.microsoft.com/~mbj/Smiley/Smiley.html

Untuk melihat komentar dari Fahlman sendiri mengenai senyuman maut ciptaannya, silahkan dilihat di:
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~sef/sefSmiley.htm

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