Emoticon
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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
ASCII art
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ASCII art is a graphic design technique that uses computers for presentation and consists of pictures pieced together from the 95 printable characters defined by the ASCII Standard from 1963 and ASCII
Emoticon
…as the 1st generation of emoticons. The second generation began when computing became more common in the west, and people began replacing the previous ASCII art with actual emoticon icons or designs. One term used to define these types of emoticons compared to ASCII was portrait emoticons, as portrait emoticons…
Dag Hammarskjöld, printout from teleprinter 1961–1962
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