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An emoticon is a pictorial representation of a facial expression using characters—usually punctuation marks, numbers and letters—to express a person's feelings, mood or reaction, without needing to de
Cover of the French magazine Le Charivari, text of a legal ruling against the magazine in the shape of a pear, 1834
Transcript of Abraham Lincoln's speech in 1862
Telegraphische Zeichenkunst in the German Deutsche Postzeitung, November 16, 1896
A kaomoji painting in Japan
Smiley
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A smiley, also known as a smiley face, is a basic ideogram representing a smiling face. Since the 1950s, it has become part of popular culture worldwide, used either as a standalone ideogram or as a f
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…as a way to use them to communicate emotion in conversations is credited to computer scientist Scott Fahlman, who proposed what came to be known as "smileys"—:-) and :-(—in a message on the bulletin board system (BBS) of Carnegie Mellon University in 1982. In Western countries, emoticons are usually written…
Page from the score of Erwin Schulhoff's "In Futurum" (one of his "Fünf Pittoresken") includes smiley faces
"Authentic Worcester-made smiley face", by Harvey Ball
Smilies in Tel Aviv street art
Smiley 1741 Hennet