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Etymology
: (eyes) + - (nose) + ) (smiling mouth). First used with the intended purpose of expressing emotion in a post by Scott Fahlman to the Carnegie Mellon University computer science general bulletin board on 19 September 1982[1]
Symbol
:-)
- An emoticon representing a smiley face.
Usage notes
- Where it would otherwise precede a right parenthesis ), sometimes the two are combined so that only one right parenthesis is used:[2]
Migrating to Linux (or BSD :-) would help our users keep track of their uploads and file permissions.
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References
- ^ “:) turns 25”, in CNN.com, Associated Press, 2007 September 20, retrieved 2007-09-20
- ^ TED Talk (xkcd comic, Feb 9 2009)