ON this date in 1982 - Scott Fahlman became the first person to use 🙂 in an online message.

Fellow 'neologists' Bun Man and Mr. Purple had already used 😉 and 😛 and also :-B (winking w/ a split tongue) so they were a little taken aback when Scott got all the online credit.

Bun Man later said "Whatever, like we need the additional recognition..."