What Is The First Documented Use Of An Emoticon? Submitted by The Global Language Network (GLN) on Wed, 12/9/2012 - 10:05 0 According to Zeit Magazine: “30 years ago, on September 9, 1982 at 11:44am, Scott Fahlman posted the first emoticon. Nothing was ever the same ;-)” Do you think we’re better or worse off because of emoticons?