Smiley has a party
September 27, 2007 on 9:54 am | In Events, Fun Stuff | 34 Comments
Last Friday, Carnegie Mellon University celebrated the 25th anniversary of the Smiley emoticon with a gala reception for the students and faculty of the School of Computer Science.
The CMU students reserved their monthly TG (short for TGIF) social to recognize this remarkable icon of the Internet age – a simple three keystroke image that morphed into personalized renderings of the mood people wanted to put into a conversation or post. The original emoticon – 
– was first used by CMU Professor Scott Fahlman as a way to communicate humor when posting messages to some early online bulletin boards.
Yahoo! Messenger was part of the celebration as well. To mark the anniversary, Professor Fahlman and his colleagues started an annual student contest for innovation in technology-assisted, person-to-person communication. This Smiley Award, sponsored by Yahoo!, will carry a $500 cash prize. The first one will be given out in 2008.
Yahoo! Messenger engineer Anurag Gupta also attended the event, demonstrating some of our latest product innovations, including the humorous Shumbee prototype that came out of a Hack Day earlier this year. Check out more pictures from Smiley’s anniversary party.
Thanks to the crew at CMU’s School of Computer Science for throwing Smiley a great anniversary party. And special thanks to Ken Schmidt from Yahoo! Academic Relations for the event photos and report. Here’s to 25 more years of innovation in communication!
Sarah Bacon
Product Manager
Happy anniversary
Comment by Name (required) — September 27, 2007 #
Lol, guess Smileys dont work here
Comment by Donna — September 27, 2007 #
happy birthday smily
Comment by moo — September 27, 2007 #
Happy anniversary Smiley… you still owe me $20.
Comment by Venom — September 27, 2007 #
stalling
Comment by Homer — September 28, 2007 #
Happy Anniversery Smiley U ROCK !
Comment by shaubnem — September 28, 2007 #
happy smile always
Comment by سامى الصالح — September 28, 2007 #
my favorite smiley >:)
Comment by Name (required) — September 29, 2007 #
Happy Anniversary Smily!!! Cool Smiley ROCKS!!!!!
Comment by beachbum — September 29, 2007 #
happy anniversary smily
Comment by mahzad — September 29, 2007 #
Happy Anniversary guy Smiley
Comment by Lisa Basina — September 29, 2007 #
happy anniversary(:-D)
Comment by Anuja — September 30, 2007 #
HAPPY BIRTHDAY SMILEY
Comment by jill — September 30, 2007 #
Feliz aniversario!
Comment by rhodecia — September 30, 2007 #
happy b day smily
gt;
Comment by joannag — September 30, 2007 #
Happy anniversary
I’m an smiley expert! I memorized all of the Y! messenger emotions and I love Y! Smileys :X:X:X:X
Comment by Sina6002 — September 30, 2007 #
Happy Birthday Hon, have a good one. Love Ya.
Comment by Darlene Mitchell — September 30, 2007 #
Happy anniversary
I’m an smiley expert! I memorized all of the Y! messenger emotions and I love Y!
Comment by nadeem — October 1, 2007 #
Happy Birthday !
I have some probleme with the latest version of yahoo messenger. it disconnects often. for example in 30 min it disconnects 3-4 time! or sometimes it doesn’t show what I recieved or what i wrote ! i really don’t know what I can do to resolve my probleme and I didn’t find the other version of messenger in Yahoo’s site. please Help Me! thanks a lot!
Comment by Blanche — October 1, 2007 #
You rock!! Happy Birthday
Comment by Jamie — October 1, 2007 #
HAPPY BIRTHDAY SMILEY
Comment by sus — October 1, 2007 #
i never knew yahoo messenger had a blog awesome!
Comment by gary — October 1, 2007 #
happy aniversary,you`re the best to shw feelin`
Comment by مهري جون — October 2, 2007 #
Happy Birthday…!
Comment by anhtu — October 2, 2007 #
Happy Anniversary Smiley
Comment by annette — October 3, 2007 #
Happy Birthday Smiley…
Comment by Rabid — October 4, 2007 #
Happy happy….. Birthday SmiLey……………
Comment by nony — October 4, 2007 #
happy anniversary smiley
Yahoo is improving day by day
i dont think that other messenger like msn paltalk or icq are better then yahoo now. yahoo voice, yahoo pic sharing, yahoo smilay, yahoo chating thousands time bater then anyother messenger … that is an honest reply to y… wish u good luck yahooooo
Comment by PAKISTANI — October 5, 2007 #
smilly has mad my yaoo a happy place to be, think you very much,
Comment by candy baby — October 5, 2007 #
Congratulations on the Smiley!!
Please introduce user created emoticons in YM like they have in MSN. It brings in a wider variety of emotions that can be expressed to make up for the lack of non-verbal cues lacking in online chat.
Thanks
Comment by Uma — October 9, 2007 #
happy b-day
Comment by kandy — October 9, 2007 #
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\m/ rocking
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