In web forums, instant messengers and online games, text emoticons are often automatically replaced with small corresponding images, which came to be called emoticons as well. Digital forms of emoticons on the Internet were included in a proposal by “Scott Fahlman” of Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in a message on 19 September 1982.
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The name of the person that has created the Emoticon was “Scott Fahlman”. He was a computer scientist at Carnegie Mellon University.
Gloria
“Scott Fahlman” was the person.
H.P.Dubey
In web forums, instant messengers and online games, text emoticons are often automatically replaced with small corresponding images, which came to be called emoticons as well. Digital forms of emoticons on the Internet were included in a proposal by “Scott Fahlman” of Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in a message on 19 September 1982.