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- Also known as Put on a Happy Face
Basic, rude and kissing smileys. - Bronwen and Claire's Really Huge Emoticon Collection
The original emoticon site. Common and not so common emoticons. - Canonical Smiley List
Compiled list of smileys and one line ASCII art. - ChatMag: Smileys
A selection of smileys used in IRC and Internet chat rooms. - Common Emoticons and Acronyms
Emoticons (emotional icons) are used to compensate for the inability to convey voice inflections, facial expressions, and bodily gestures in written communication - Computer Geek Emoticons
Emoticons are ASCII (plain text) graphics. To read these, tilt your head to the left until the dots look like a pair of eyes. (BTW, the noses are optional.) - eHumor Central
Smilies and emoticons submitted by users. A few signature sized pictures too. - Emoticons Article
Online culture's foremost contribution to either the evolution of language or the death of literacy, depending on your point of view. - Emoticons Online.com
This website helps you to find out the meaning of several emoticons and smileys. - Emoticons or Smileys
A sequence of ordinary characters you can find on your computer keyboard. Emoticons are used in e-mail and other forms of communication. - EmoticonUniverse.com
Expressing emotion in email correspondence. Directory and newsletter. - Fast Company: Wipe That Smile off Your Face
Linguist, Naomi Baron, predicts that abbreviations will replace emoticons and that electronic communication will grow increasingly cryptic as groups develop their own secret codes. - FastCompany: He Seconds That Emotion
Article about Scott Fahlman and emoticon use. Fahlman is the originator of the "emotional icon," or "emoticon" target="_blank". - The First Smiley :-)
Smiley history, includes the original 1982 post introducing the smiley. - Gmail: Help Center - Emoticons
List of emoticons available to use with Gmail. - Guardian Unlimited: Emoticons
Article by Sam Mohun. Published on the 20th anniversary of the smiley. - Helwig's Smiley Dictionary
Built on December, 1994 from another smiley page. - Learn the Net: Smileys
You can personalize your written messages by using smileys or emoticons. You create smileys by typing characters from your keyboard. - NetLingo: Smileys and Emoticons
Online directory to look up words, acronyms, smileys, ASCII art, whatever you don't understand. - Online Lingo
A secret foreign language of weird symbols. This list of emoticons and abbreviations will help you talk the talk of the online world. - Online Smiley Faces and Emoticons
A collection of smiley faces used in Internet messages including the specific ones used in Yahoo messenger chat application. - Robert's Smiley Guide
Selection of text smileys. Click on the happy face to see the text smileys. - Sharpened: Emoticons
A list of emoticons used in email, online chat, and instant messaging. - Smile! It's Contagious!
List of emoticons on a page with some smiley graphics. - Smiley Dictionary: Emoticons
Vote for the top ten emoticons and check the database. - Smiley Faces
Written by PCLink's teacher GW. - Smiley Lore :-)
Scott E. Fahlman writes about how he started smileys in text email. - Smileys and Emoticons
Recommended emoticons and smileys for email communication. - Smiley's Collection
This page was made to show all the types of smileys there are in the world (or close to it or not even close to it). There are a whole bunch of smileys listed below and a description of what it is. - Smiley's People
Neal Stephenson's anti-smiley screed from The New Republic. - The Smileys Server
Live smiley gallery and collection. - Smilies Unlimited
Search the smiley faces database for the best face. - Star Trek Smileys
Star Trek smileys and emoticons. A short introduction to smileys. - User Friendly
Editorial on the use of emoticons. - Webopedia - emoticon
This page describes the term emoticon and lists other pages on the web where you can find additional information. - What are Emoticons?
An extensive list. Emoticons are ASCII glyphs originally designed to show an emotional state in plain text messages. - WYSIWYG
Joan's collection of emoticons and acronyms. These one line faces are truly the most primitive of ASCII art and have been around the Internet for years. - Yahoo Groups: Emoticons
Email list about how emoticons are useful.
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