25 anos a sorrir

No passado dia 19 de Setembro o smile cibernáutico fez 25 anos. Aqui vai o texto escrito pelo seu inventor, Scott Fahlman, à data Professor da Carnegie Mellon University:

19-Sep-82 11:44 Scott E Fahlman
From: Scott E Fahlman

I propose that the following character sequence for joke markers:

:-)

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

:-(