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Emoticons (also called smileys) are used in email, chat and other Net communication. They allow the writer to show humour, sarcasm, etc. This is useful in the typewritten medium of the Internet where communication can be misunderstood. Smileys are faces made from the basic keyboard (ASCII) characters. To 'read' them look at them sideways. :-) Text based only, not web graphics. See Emojis.

Resources in This Category

• ASCII.li

  https://ascii.li/
  Text emoticon generator.

• Bronwen and Claire's Really Huge Emoticon Collection

  http://www.angelfire.com/hi/hahakiam/emoticon.html
  The original emoticon site. Common and not so common emoticons.

• Cool Smileys

  http://www.cool-smileys.com/text-emoticons
  An attempt to create a list of all the text emoticons and smileys in the world.

• Emoticon Central

  http://emoticoncentral.com/
  Directory of text-based emoticons and smileys to use in online forums and email.

• Emoticons Online.com

  http://www.emoticons-online.com/
  Listing emoticons and smileys.

• Emoticons or Smileys

  http://www.muller-godschalk.com/emoticon.html
  A sequence of ordinary characters you can find on your computer keyboard. Emoticons are used in e-mail and other forms of communication.

• Fast Company: Wipe That Smile off Your Face

  http://www.fastcompany.com/63986/wipe-smile-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

  http://www.fastcompany.com/63974/he-seconds-emotion
  Article about Scott Fahlman and emoticon use. Fahlman is the originator of the "emotional icon," or "emoticon".

• Gmail: Using Chat Emoticons

  https://support.google.com/chat/answer/161882?hl=en&ref_topic=2386431
  List of emoticons available to use with Gmail.

• Guardian Unlimited: Emoticons

  http://www.theguardian.com/news/2002/sep/19/netnotes
  Article by Sam Mohun. Published on the 20th anniversary of the smiley.

• Helwig's Smiley Dictionary

  http://www.cg.tuwien.ac.at/~helwig/smileys.html
  Built on December, 1994 from another smiley page.

• Looking for Sigmund Freud's Smiley

  http://marcohana.com/en/art-ascii-freud.html
  Five states of a smiley of Sigmund Freud. Emoticons leading to a gif, a dedicated signature.

• NetLingo: Smileys and Emoticons

  http://www.netlingo.com/smiley.cfm
  Online directory to look up words, acronyms, smileys, ASCII art, whatever you don't understand.

• Online Smiley Faces and Emoticons

  http://www.anvari.org/cols/Online_Smiley_Faces_and_Emoticons/
  A collection of smiley faces used in Internet messages..

• Sharpened: Emoticons

  http://pc.net/emoticons/
  A list of emoticons used in email, online chat, and instant messaging.

• Smiley Lore :-)

  http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~sef/sefSmiley.htm
  Scott E. Fahlman writes about how he started smileys in text email.

• Smiley's Collection

  http://www.angelfire.com/ny/Smileyscolection/
  This page was made to show all the types of smileys there are in the world (or close to it).

• Smiley's People

  http://www.spesh.com/lee/ns/smiley.html
  Neal Stephenson's anti-smiley screed from The New Republic.

• Smileys and Emoticons

  http://www.windweaver.com/emoticon.htm
  Recommended emoticons and smileys for email communication.

• Star Trek Smileys

  http://www.kasper-online.de/en/docs/startrek/smileys.htm
  Star Trek smileys and emoticons. A short introduction to smileys.

• The First Smiley :-)

  http://research.microsoft.com/~mbj/Smiley/Smiley.html
  Smiley history, includes the original 1982 post introducing the smiley.

• Yahoo Groups - Emoticons

  http://groups.yahoo.com/group/emoticon/
  Email list about how emoticons are useful.

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