# Happy Birthday to this guy -----\> :-)  25 today!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-birthday-to-this-guy-25-today/419731>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [September 19, 2007, 11:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-birthday-to-this-guy-25-today/419731 "2007-09-19T11:37:11Z")\
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**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\
**Post date:** [September 19, 2007, 11:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-birthday-to-this-guy-25-today/419731/1 "2007-09-19T11:37:11Z")

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🙂

[The smiley “emoticon” is 25 years old today.](http://www.cs.cmu.edu/smiley/).

> [@](#):
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> 19-Sep-82 11:44 Scott E Fahlman
> 
> I propose that [sic]the following character sequence for joke markers:
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> 🙂
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> Read it sideways…

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**Author:** ![Santo\_Rugger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e95f7d/32.png) [@Santo\_Rugger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Santo_Rugger)\
**Post date:** [September 19, 2007, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-birthday-to-this-guy-25-today/419731/2 "2007-09-19T14:08:56Z")

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Who would have thought I was older than the :-)?

By almost a full three months, at that!

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**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\
**Post date:** [September 19, 2007, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-birthday-to-this-guy-25-today/419731/3 "2007-09-19T14:10:08Z")

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On International Talk Like a Pirate day, no less?

/p-)

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**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\
**Post date:** [September 19, 2007, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-birthday-to-this-guy-25-today/419731/4 "2007-09-19T14:20:18Z")

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[QUOTE=Pygmy Rugger]  
Who would have thought I was older than the :-)?

By almost a full three months, at that!  
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Ha, you young 'uns, you don’t know you’re born. I still remember the first time a young lady gave me a timid colon-dash-close-parenthesis… _sniff_

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**Author:** ![Suburban\_Plankton](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suburban_plankton/32/219_2.png) [@Suburban\_Plankton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suburban_Plankton)\
**Post date:** [September 19, 2007, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/happy-birthday-to-this-guy-25-today/419731/5 "2007-09-19T15:59:10Z")

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🙂