September 22, 2002-11:12 a.m. September 19, 1982 Scott Fahlman was the first person to type this: :-) The poor guy is a researcher who has devoted his life to trying to teach computers to think more like humans and yet he�ll be known more for :-) than for anything else he's done. Who says there�s no irony in life? **Disclaimer: All characters in this diary are fictional. Any resemblance to actual people living or dead, real or imagined, is purely coincidental and unintentional.** |