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On many occasions in the cyber-world, there are times that you want to express your emotions, but can't really find the words to do so. Emoticons is a name that has been given to icons that are used on the Internet to express your emotions. So whenever you find yourself at a loss for words, you can let the emoticons speak for you. more »
Emoticons are icons for your computer that display your emotions to your friends and family. Normally used in instant messages (IMs) or emails, they are most commonly recognized as smiley faces. From your MySpace instant messenger, you can customize and create your own MySpace emoticons to represent your personal emotions and... more »
Yahoo! Messenger is an instant messaging program that allows you to keep in contact easily with friends, family and co-workers. Yahoo! Messenger allows you to download and install emoticons to liven up your conversations. Emoticons are small pictures used to represent emotions such as happy, angry, excited and tired. There are a wide... more »
Emoticons are emotional graphics or faces that allow individuals the ability to express visually how they are feeling when words alone aren't enough. MSN Messenger comes prepackaged with a large library of emoticons. If the default smiley faces aren't enough, MSN also allows users to create their own. Locate an animated GIF file and... more »
Instant-message (IM) smileys, more commonly referred to as emoticons---emotional icons---are how some people show how they are feeling when the recipient of their IM cannot see them. Here, we will explore how to include IM smileys in many instant-messaging clients' software. more »
Emoticons are a combination of keyboard symbols that are used to bring across an emotion or feeling through written contact over the internet.... more »
They might seem like just a bunch of frills, but emoticons actually have many real-life applications in the classroom. From the sciences, to drama... more »
One of the problems with communicating via the Internet is that you don’t get the nonverbal cues that help you know what someone really... more »
Emoticons or smileys are icons that used for emails, forums, instant messaging and any other communication on your computer. You can create them... more »
Chatzilla, Mozilla's cross-platform Internet Relay Chat (IRC) client, is very intuitive to use. It works with a variety of other web standards and... more »
An emoticon is a textual expression representing the face of a writers mood or facial expression. For example, :), :(, and :D. They are often used to alert a responder to the tenor or temper of a statement, and can change and improve interpretation of plain text. The word is a portmanteau of the English words emotion (or emote) and icon. In web forums, instant messengers and online games, text emoticons are often automatically replaced with small corresponding images, which came to be called emoticons as well.
The use of emoticons can be traced back to the nineteenth century and were commonly used in casual/humorous writing. Digital forms of emoticons on the Internet were included in a proposal by Scott Fahlman in a message on 19 September 1982."smiley">See for a reconstruction of the entire thread
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The National Telegraphic Review and Operators Guide in April 1857 documented the use of the number 73 in Morse code to express "love and kisses" (later reduced to the more formal "best regards"). Dodges Manual in 1908 documented the reintroduction of "love and kisses" as the number 88. Gajadhar and Green comment that both Morse code abbreviations are more succinct than modern abbreviations such as LOL.
A New York Times transcript from Abraham Lincolns speech written in 1862 discovered by Bryan Benilous appears to contain a "winking" emoticon, but it is unclear whether it is an actual use, a typo or a legitimate punctuation construct.
Typographical emoticons were published in 1881 by the U.S. satirical magazine Puck. In 1912 Ambrose Bierce proposed "an improvement in punctuation — the snigger point, or note of cachinnation: it is written thus \___/! and presents a smiling mouth. It is to be appended, with the full stop , to every jocular or ironical sentence".
Emoticons had already come into use in sci-fi fandom in the 1940s,Gregory Benford, A Scientists Notebook: net@fandom.com, The Magazine of Fant read more at » http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emoticon
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