Happy birthday,Smiley!!!!

On September 19, 1982, Professor Falman sent the following messages to the university's electronic bulletin board: 

"19-Sep-82 11:44 Scott E Fahlman :-) From: Scott E Fahlman I propose that the following character sequence for jacks markers :

: -) 

Read it sideways. Actually, it's probably more economical to mark things that are NOT jokes given current trends. For this, use 

:-( 

The idea of using symbol as emotion was liked the students, and the smiley instantly gained popularity. Soon,picturing of different emotions was began to invent different combinations of characters. You can use those icons that you think are better to convey the emotional color of your message.

Graphic emoticons in the form of pictures, and not signs, have gained popularity with the developing of popularization of large numbers of Internet forums and blogs.