Prof Fahlman posted the ‘sideways smiley’ onto an online computer science board at the university, and others contributed to the thread. Emoticons then reached world-wide discussion systems ...

5. Abraham Lincoln might have been the first to use an emoticon Whilst explaining the difference between emoticons and emoji, Professor Vyv Evans remarked on what might well have been the first ...

Over that time, the iconic smiling face and its many emoticon descendants have brought an attitude of ‘defiant optimism’ to a dizzying array of different partnerships, spanning almost every sector ...

Researchers at Amsterdam University, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) and the University of Haifa recently teamed up to investigate the effect of smileys and similar emoticons on ...