A combination of characters, invented by a computer scientist in 1982, is now worth a lot of money.
The first digital smiley was auctioned in the US for more than $ 200,000.
The initially unknown highest bidder bought the emoji online for $ 237,500 (about 200,000 euros), as can be seen on the website of the Heritage Auctions auction house in Dallas, Texas.
Computer scientist Scott Fahlman from the University of Pittsburgh first suggested the combination of characters “:-)” for use in this context on September 19, 1982 – it is now considered by many to be the forefather of the digital smiley.
The initial bid for the so-called NFT, which contains Fahlman’s original notice on an online university notice board, was $ 1,000. An NFT (non-fungible token) is a type of digital certificate of authenticity: there can be any number of identical copies of the item, but only this one can be considered the original.
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