Update: As Michael Kupietƺ, this guy I know from Facebook, accurately clarifies, it's specifically the ASCII emoticon that is 30-years-old."There have been typographic emoticons for a lot longer ...

PITTSBURGH — Happy birthday to the emoticon -- the sideways smiley-face that changed the way we communicate emotion online. Consisting of three keyboard strokes (colon, hyphen, close parentheses ...

Can emoticons affect relationships? After 30 years of using them, we decide to have a look at the power of emoticons ...

When computer science professor Scott Fahlman posted a sideways smiley face on an electronic message board at Carnegie Mellon University in 1982, he could not possibly have known that combination ...

Stahl’s discovery quickly made the rounds online, trumpeted in The Atlantic, The Huffington Post, Mashable, Engadget, and elsewhere. Now, it would obviously be big news to find a sideways smiley ...

The sideways "smiley face", often referred to as the first emoticon, turns thirty years old today. Scott E. Fahlman came up with the idea during a bulletin board post on September 19, 1982 as a ...

The man who invented the emoticon does not like what you kids have done to his sideways smiley face with all of the hip emoji and sticker trends of the social media, thank you very much.

The digital smiley is 31 years old, ... Still, for many of us, the simple sideways smiley face still reigns in electronic communication. ILLUSTRATION: Ben Wiseman.