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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've never thought about that. Could it be because :) became the shortcut for emoji?

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

It came before emojis/a shortcut for them. I would think it's from T9 keyboards. If you wanted any of those types of characters, it was a cycle of a single button and : comes before =, so doing : ) was a lot less button presses than = )