The First Smiley :-)

I can\’t believe Hermit let this one go. Mike Jones & a team of dedicated researchers have located the the original message in which the smiley was invented, which had been thought to be lost. On September 10, 2002 the original post made by Scott Fahlman on CMU CS general bboard was retrieved by Jeff Baird from an October 1982 backup tape of the spice vax (cmu-750x).