# World's first smiley was invented in 1982

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**Created:** [October 16, 2005, 11:19pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/worlds-first-smiley-was-invented-in-1982/166088 "2005-10-16T23:19:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![Kyri](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f07891/32.png) [@Kyri](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Kyri)\
**Post date:** [October 16, 2005, 11:19pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/worlds-first-smiley-was-invented-in-1982/166088/1 "2005-10-16T23:19:00Z")

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🙂

> **[Mike Jones at Microsoft Research](https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/people/mbj/?from=http%3A%2F%2Fresearch.microsoft.com%2F%7Embj%2Fsmiley%2Fjoke_thread.html)**
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> Michael B. Jones is Director of Identity Partnerships at Microsoft.  He is working with a broad coalition of people across multiple industries…