Thirty-three years ago today, a professor at Carnegie Mellon University invented the emoticon. Scott E. Fahlman, along with other members of CMU's computer science community, used online "bulletin ...

At some point, you’ve probably seen the infamous shrug emoticon: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Emoticons (not to be confused with emoji) are a series of characters put together to make a face, animal or some other funny ...

Don't :- ( It's time to celebrate the emoticon's birthday by remembering the simpler days when all smileys were sideways. Emoticons might seem old-school today, but they’re technically millennial. The ...

On World Emoji Day, emoticon inventor Scott Fahlman opens up about creating the progenitor of emoji and why he doesn’t use emoji himself. Reporter In September of 1982, a handful of researchers at ...

The emoticon, punctuation to depict a facial expression, began 30 years ago this week. Using three keystrokes, the colon, dash and parenthesis, to suggest a smile may not be a great scientific advance ...

The author explains the motivations behind the jacket: In this application, the effort we put into replacing the nuances of personal communication with punctuation and textual cues in the virtual ...

There are a handful of third-party keyboards on the App Store that offer far more emoticons than the stock iOS keyboard. If you're the kind of person whose message isn't conveyed unless there's an ...

Emotion is something that is incredibly difficult to get across in a digital format. Aside from ending your texts with “lol” to appear less threatening, or ending a tweet with “/s” to indicate sarcasm ...

The emoticon is old. Or, young, 30 years young! Either way, it's a bona fide grown-up symbol now, with the life experience under its lack of a belt (for it has no waist) to prove it. But it has ...

On September 14, Gravity launched the mini emoticon set 'Cute Mini Poring: Save the Rag World!' on the Kakao Emoticon Shop.

Social media networks need to introduce more colors for their emoticon graphics to stop users "misleading" each other, a specialist has warned. The claims stems from new research by experts from ...