Who used the first smiley or Emoticon ?The same person suggested the use of :-) to mark posts which were jokes.

Scott Fahlman, a computer scientist at Carnegie Mellon University, first suggested using the :-) emoticon to mark humorous posts on a university bulletin board in 1982. This is widely documented as the first use of the smiley emoticon in digital communication. Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web, and Dennis Ritchie developed the Unix operating system.