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September 19, 1982

On September 19, 1982, scott Fahlman posts the first documented emoticons :-) and :-( on the Carnegie Mellon University bulletin board system. The year's #1 song was "Physical" by Olivia Newton-John. Taran Killam, Andreas Thorkildsen, Andre Ethier would arrive in the same year.

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1982 (MCMLXXXII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1982nd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 982nd year of the 2nd millennium, the 82nd year of the 20th century, and the 3rd year of the 1980s decade.

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On September 19, 1982

  1. 1982 Scott Fahlman posts the first documented emoticons :-) and :-( on the Carnegie Mellon University bulletin board system.

    American computer scientist (born 1948)

    Scott Elliott Fahlman is an American computer scientist and Professor Emeritus at Carnegie Mellon University's Language Technologies Institute and Computer Science Department. He is notable for early work on automated planning and scheduling in a blocks world, on semantic networks, on neural networks, on the programming languages Dylan, and Common Lisp, and he was one of the founders of Lucid Inc. " From 2006 to 2015, Fahlman was engaged in developing a knowledge base named Scone, based in part on his thesis work on the NETL Semantic Network.

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Born on September 19, 1982

Eduardo Carvalho 1982– Portuguese footballer (born 1982)
Eleni Daniilidou 1982– Greek tennis player

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Taran Killam 1982– American actor, voice artist, comedian, and writer
Andreas Thorkildsen 1982– Norwegian javelin thrower
Andre Ethier 1982– American baseball player
Ian Bell 1982– English cricketer[citation needed]
Peeter Kümmel 1982– Estonian skier
Nellie McKay 1982– British-American singer-songwriter, musician, and actress

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