There’s something undeniably magical about slipping beneath the surface of the water. The world changes instantly: light bends differently, sound muffles into a low hum, and colors shift as if you’ve entered a living dream. Fish dart in flashes of silver, coral sways with the rhythm of the tide, and for a moment, you realize …
On September 19, 1982, in the computer labs of Carnegie Mellon University, history was made in the most unlikely way. Not with rockets or revolutions, not with treaties or discoveries, but with three humble keystrokes: colon, hyphen, and parentheses. Together, they formed “:-)” — the world’s first widely recognized digital smiley face. It was posted …
