The humble smiley face emoticon, now a staple of online communication, owes its origin to a physics joke that didn't hit ...

That evening, computer scientist Howard Gayle responded with a facetious message titled “WARNING!” He claimed that an ...

With three simple keystrokes, Scott Fahlman brought a smile to the internet. In a 1982 message board post, Fahlman, a computer scientist at Carnegie-Mellon University, proposed using typographical ...

NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — Walmart is bringing back its famous Smiley face icon after a 10-year hiatus and lengthy legal battle. “We felt like it was time to bring back an old friend, and one of the ...

While existing in some fashion throughout history, the ubiquitous and immortal smiley face has in fact been a fairly recent ...

They're not just for Messages. Apple has made emojis such a part of iOS 14 that you can use them nearly anywhere you can type — and now it's made it easier to find the one you want. Okay, if you tried ...

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 ...

Facebook is rolling out a new feature that looks like a whimsical blast of 1990s nostalgia. Starting with a limited number of U.S. users, the site is encouraging people to share how they’re feeling or ...

You can insert a smiley face, perhaps the most commonly used emoticon, into a Word document using punctuation marks or by using the smiley character from the Symbols group on the Insert tab, but these ...

Heads up, iPhone users. The next time you post a Facebook status update from your phone, you'll be able to add an icon showing what you're feeling, reading, watching, or eating - a la vintage MySpace.

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