In a message dated 11/5/2009 6:02:27 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, [log in to unmask] writes: The keyboard, the typewriter of today, supposedly was the tool that created the first "smiley" :-) face in 1982. --------------------- The Smiley Face itself goes back to at least 1921 according to an APM article (1989) on the advertising box for the Siam Soo 78rpm doll. allen