Thirty-three years ago today, a professor at Carnegie Mellon University invented the emoticon. Scott E. Fahlman, along with other members of CMU's computer science community, used online "bulletin ...

Don't :- ( It's time to celebrate the emoticon's birthday by remembering the simpler days when all smileys were sideways. Emoticons might seem old-school today, but they’re technically millennial. The ...

At some point, you’ve probably seen the infamous shrug emoticon: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Emoticons (not to be confused with emoji) are a series of characters put together to make a face, animal or some other funny ...

The emoticon, punctuation to depict a facial expression, began 30 years ago this week. Using three keystrokes, the colon, dash and parenthesis, to suggest a smile may not be a great scientific advance ...

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 at ...

A Seattle federal judge kept Medicaid for more than 800 Washington immigrants on SSI, but about 10,000 refugees, asylees, and others lost Apple Health on Oct. 1. At Least 20 Alabama Rural Hospitals to ...

March 30 marks the 134th anniversary of the first appearance of the emoticon—well, depending on whom you ask. On March 30, 1881, Puck (a humor magazine) published a sm all item showing facial ...

The author explains the motivations behind the jacket: In this application, the effort we put into replacing the nuances of personal communication with punctuation and textual cues in the virtual ...

The emoticon is old. Or, young, 30 years young! Either way, it's a bona fide grown-up symbol now, with the life experience under its lack of a belt (for it has no waist) to prove it. But it has ...

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 ...

There are a handful of third-party keyboards on the App Store that offer far more emoticons than the stock iOS keyboard. If you're the kind of person whose message isn't conveyed unless there's an ...