On the morning of this day in 1982, the "emojis" commonly used in text messages online were born, which often substitute for many phrases and perhaps save time. At 11:44 AM on September 19, 1982, Scott Fahlman, a psychology professor at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, sent an email to his colleagues. In this message, Fahlman suggested that internet users use the sequence of symbols ":-)" to indicate a humorous, joking expression, explaining that such an emoticon resembles a smiling face. Since then, September 19 has been celebrated as "Emoji Day."
Prior to that, the smiling face appeared in 1963, created by an artist named Harvey Ball, when two major insurance companies, which merged for $45, asked him to draw a symbol that conveyed optimism for a future that many employees at the companies saw as uncertain and bleak.
