Pittsburgh Firsts

First Internet Emoticon
The Smiley :-) was created in 1980 by Carnegie Mellon University computer scientist Scott Fahlman.

First Mr. Yuk Sticker
Created at the Poison Center at Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh after research indicated that the skull and crossbones previously used to identify poisons had little meaning to the children of the day.

First Motion Picture Theater
The "Nickelodeon," opened by Harry Davis on Smithfield Street in Pittsburgh in 1905, dedicated to exclusively showing motion pictures.