From the humble beginnings of a smiley face to the over a thousand icons that we now have at our fingertips, emojis have ...

Gone are the days of handwritten letters that people used to send to their loved ones on joyous occasions, happy moments, and ...

On World Emoji Day, emoticon inventor Scott Fahlman opens up about creating the progenitor of emoji and why he doesn’t use emoji himself. Reporter In September of 1982, a handful of researchers ...

The ubiquitous yellow smiley face symbol was created in 1963. Found out the story of this amazingly simple but effective morale booster.

The emoticon has been upgraded and animated, loved and hated. Emoticons have graced gadgets, T-shirts and more. Witness the emoticon’s lasting impact, and smile if you can.

A dedicated poetry reader appears to have discovered a smiley face in a poem from 1648, a find that would extend the pre-history of the emoticon back by about 200 years.. Editor Levi Stahl ...

Scott Fahlman, a professor at Carnegie Mellon University, posted the first emoticon at 11:44 a.m. 25 years ago. GENE J. PUSKAR/ASSOCIATED PRESS PITTSBURGH — It was a serious contribution to the ...

Update: As Michael Kupietƺ, this guy I know from Facebook, accurately clarifies, it's specifically the ASCII emoticon that is 30-years-old."There have been typographic emoticons for a lot longer ...

The world's first emoticon may have existed long before computers, smartphones and the Internet ever even existed. A literary critic has discovered what could be the first smiley face buried ...

The smiley has held a rare dual position as a countercultural icon and a paragon of American consumerism. The Smiley Company, which brought in $419.9 million in 2017, claims that the smiley is ...