Ubiquitous, possibly annoying :-) first popped up on an online bulletin board at 11:44 a.m. on Sept. 19, 1982.

Here is an incomplete list of the times when you are NOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES to use a smiley emoticon. Also, please note, you are not allowed to use a 😉 (winky face), a 🙁 (frowny face) or a :/ ...

Language experts say the smiley face and other emotional icons, known as emoticons, have given people a concise way in e-mail and other electronic messages of expressing sentiments that otherwise ...

Typography continued to evolve as wingdings were developed in 1990, allowing users access to symbols through their keyboard. Pictographic representations of everything from smiley faces to ...

Happy birthday, sideways smiley face! Wednesday marks the 30th birthday of the emoticon. The computer symbol for “not serious” or now more generally “happiness,” made up of a colon, dash ...

While emoticons have probably been independently invented many times—the earliest documented use of the smiley face with a nose, :-), comes in 1982—Herrick very well could have been the first.

Tech EMOTICON What does the upside-down smiley mean? Charlotte Everett Published: 14:30, 20 Jul 2023 Updated: 17:24, 1 Sep 2023 ...

Nor are all smileys created equal. The neural reaction in the study changed significantly depending on whether or not people were looking at the most familiar version of the smiley emoticon. While ...

Updated: 6:37 PM EDT Sep 20, 2012 Editorial Standards ⓘ PITTSBURGH — Happy birthday to the emoticon -- the sideways smiley-face that changed the way we communicate emotion online.