Huffington Post : "The big problem with [...] emoticons, Emojis | Ce monde à inventer ! | Scoop.it

Joan Gage 06/15 : "The first emoticon was created in 1982 by Scott E. Fahlman, a computer scientist at Carnegie Mellon University. Pretty much no one had a personal computer or access to the Internet except for geeky scientists and scholarly computer experts who communicated with each other on the earliest on-line bulletin boards. They wanted a way to mark posts that were not meant to be taken seriously, to avoid frequent fire storms from...