August 23, 2007
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Answered by: Abhishek, Shashank, jayanth, devadutta, yaksha and piezocake.
Answer:
The question was to identify the chap in the picture. The clue you had was the emoticon below him. The dude in the pic is Scott Fahlman, the first person on record to use a smiley. More details in the wiki link below.
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August 23rd, 2007 at 9:52 am, GMT -0700 ( 1187887946 )
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
:-(
August 23rd, 2007 at 9:55 am, GMT -0700 ( 1187888158 )
Scott Fahlman - he basically invented the smiley :-)
August 23rd, 2007 at 10:41 am, GMT -0700 ( 1187890898 )
harvey ball? the guy who came up with smileys…
or Scott Fahlman, the guy who gave us :-) and :-(
August 23rd, 2007 at 1:28 pm, GMT -0700 ( 1187900919 )
Scott E. Fahlman
August 23rd, 2007 at 10:17 pm, GMT -0700 ( 1187932648 )
Scott E Fahlman
August 24th, 2007 at 1:25 am, GMT -0700 ( 1187943921 )
He looks like and old man to me … :)
August 24th, 2007 at 5:00 am, GMT -0700 ( 1187956841 )
Scott E. Fahlman.