Emoticons are 25 years old on 24/9/07


	Emoticons are 25 years old on 24/9/07

Darth_Cookies

9-24-2007 6:53 PM

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smiley, emoticon, 25, years, september, 2007, 9

Darth_Cookies says:

Wow, that must have been amazingly hard to find the origin of this.

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