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Etymology
+ + . First used with the intended purpose of expressing emotion in a post by Scott Fahlman to the Carnegie Mellon University computer science general bulletin board on 19 September 1982

Symbol

 * 1) An emoticon representing a smiley face.

Usage notes

 * Where it would otherwise precede a right parenthesis, sometimes the two are combined so that only one right parenthesis is used: