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 ...

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 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.

The emoticon evolved in a matter of months, Fahlman writes — people made emoticons that looked like the pope, Abraham Lincoln, and a person wearing glasses. He doesn't seem to like emoji, though.

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 ...

Emoticon – typographical device used to indicate tone or emotion in a posting. Most of the devices, which are viewed sideways, are based on the smiley face – :-).

Today, on the 40th birthday of the original emoticon, it would appear that those classic emoticons are old-fashioned, as emojis reign supreme. It wasn’t a bad run, ...

A 2007 study of emoticon use in online chatting warned that even though emoticons are meant to inject nonverbal expressions into text-only conversations, ...

“I discovered what looks to be the first emoticon!” So read an excited blog post from Levi Stahl, an editor and publicity manager at the University of Chicago Press, who had been reading the ...