Where did the emoticons come from? It is said that Scott Elliot Fahlman a computer scientist and Carnegie Mellon University invented the first one. He created the first smiley emoticons as a way to help people on a message board at Carnegie Mellon to distinguish serious posts from those that were less serious or were jokes.
The original message board post that contained smiley faces was posted on September 19, 1982. He is still trying to prove that he was the inventor of these little smiley faces. He even went so far as to dig up the old messages from that message board. These symbols caught on and today we have smiley faces everywhere. There are yahoo messenger emoticons. There are even emotions for windows messenger, and messenger plus. Smileys emoticons just seem to brighten a message better than anything else, and today the can even demonstrate emotions.
Don’t you think its kind of cool to receive a message from a friend with a neat little caricature on it! Now there are dozens, hundreds and even thousands of variations of these emoticos that show every possible emotion or idea. They even have personalities and can laugh and talk to you.
