# Ever wonder where the smiley came from

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**Created:** [September 18, 2007, 5:52am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/ever-wonder-where-the-smiley-came-from/35563 "2007-09-18T05:52:48Z")\
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**Post date:** [September 18, 2007, 5:52am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/ever-wonder-where-the-smiley-came-from/35563/1 "2007-09-18T05:52:48Z")

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25 years old

> **[Digital ‘smiley face’ turns 25](http://www.nbcnews.com/id/20829611/)**
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> Twenty-five years ago, Carnegie Mellon University professor was the first to use three keystrokes — a colon followed by a hyphen  as a horizontal "smiley face" in a computer message.