The smiley, the first and world famous emoticion, exists for 25 years today. Prof. Scot E. Fahlman was the first person who used the emoticon. He used the smiley for the first time on 19 september 1982 in an electronic message to his students. He used the smiley because he wanted to introduce a symbol to show which messages aren’t suppose to take to serious. Thats why he introduced the smiley.

So congratulations to the smiley