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    Who invented the 'smileys' or the round yellow smiling face? [delete]

    Question #93187. Asked by screef. (Mar 05 08 9:14 AM)


    mybigtoe

    		I got this off the website straightdope.com

    But who invented the original smiley face? The best bet is that the smiley Bernard and Murray had seen floating around was created circa December 1963 for a subsidiary of the State Mutual insurance company by Harvey Ball, a graphic artist in Worcester, Massachusetts.

    Mar 05 08, 9:33 AM
    zbeckabee

    		DUPLICATE QUESTION -- See:

    http://www.funtrivia.com/askft/Question2676.html
    http://www.funtrivia.com/askft/Question14326.html
    http://www.funtrivia.com/askft/Question66780.html

    Mar 05 08, 9:34 AM

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