In this article I discuss the history of the smiley or emoticon. Maybe for my friends and colleagues, this contribution has often been seen or may have to know a lot. However, I hope that this contribution can increase our knowledge and ideas.
The presence of smileys and emoticons that are appropriate to the reader of blogs in their feelings about the comments they have written with more attractive to give expression. The same applies to the use of e-mail, chat, forums, social networking sites and other services. Another reader, who will also be easier to understand the feelings of the writer to avoid any misunderstandings that often arise when the author of a joke (free to do so), but wrongly interpreted as an insult by other readers.
For the (September 19, 1982 Scott Fahlman Kumputer science professor at the university. Carneige Mellon) BBOARD at (bulletin boards) CMU-CS-create messages with character sets that show an expression, so that when of birth is the beginning of the Smiley in cyberspace. Smiley is the first time a series of ASCII characters, like that 
. Because of its shape as it looks, his head tilted to the left as shown by a smiling face if disebutlah smiley / emoticon.
After all this time it is not public, and finally succeeded in the post history was written by Jeff and Al Baird was held September 10, 2002 from a tape backup storage VAX spices (CMU-750X) which was used in the years 1981-1983.
In just a few months of its use through the dissemination of the ARPANET (the Internet for the first time) and Usenet. Creates a multitude of characters began to grow and smileys Scott, et al.
Use of this smiley has become widespread in the 80s and the social culture in cyberspace. And to this day is still widespread, but by different reflecting increasingly diversified. The form of a series of text smileys now replaced by the image of many small, a symbol, then the new term comes, namely, emotion emoticons (icons).
