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emoticons can be traced back hundreds of years with various one-off uses. The protocol as a way to use them to communicate emotion in conversations is credited to computer scientist Scott Fahlman, who proposed what came to be known as "smileys"--:-) and :-(--in a message on the bulletin board system (BBS) of Carnegie Mellon University in 1982. In Western

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