The Evolution Of Emoticons
News William Shakespeare and Mark Twain may never have needed emoticons, but textual smiley faces have grinned, smirked, and grimaced their way into today's email and instant-message conversations. What did people do before emoticons?
[March 12, 2004, 12:35]
'Smiley' Turns 25
News Emoticons — the smiley faces that frequently punctuate emails and instant messages — are 25 years old on Wednesday. Since then emoticons have become an important part of online social culture, making it easy to communicate emotions quickly.
[September 19, 2007, 14:50]
First 'smiley' Found
News The smiley has spawned a whole range of emoticons since its appearance on a bulletin board discussion at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) in 1982. The emoticons, as they are known, have become an important part of the worldwide online social...
[September 13, 2002, 11:31]
The Internet Celebrates Its Birthday - Again
News According to Brian Dear, who is writing a book on the PLATO system, which began life in 1960 as a solution to delivering individualised instruction to students in schools and universities across the US, emoticons were regularly used on that system...
[January 2, 2003, 12:17]
