Emoji date back to 1999 when they first appeared on Japanese cell phones. But it’s history goes further than that, because ...

Emoticons are expressions of emotions while emojis are used to explain things. So, for example, 😅😂🤣🥲 are emoticons while 🍎🍔⚽🚗 are emojis. Want to know more? Check out the link below!

But they don't teach emoticons in school, and some of them are actually hard to understand — at least for some of us. Below we've listed the actual definitions for all the main emoticons.

Scott Fahlman, programmer and retired professor at Carnegie Mellon University, was the first documented person to use the emoticons :-) and :-(when proposing the sequence of characters to mark ...

In the early days of online chatting people used different characters on the keyboard as a shortcut to convey an emotion. The happy face :) to convey happiness or joy. The frowny face :( to convey ...

The set features 16 uniquely designed emoticons, capturing the festive cheer of the Lunar New Year with vibrant and playful designs. Free for all WeChat users, these emoticons are part of a ...

To find out what some of our most-used emoticons might say about us, Young Post spoke to psychologist Leah Selakovic, who shared all about how emojis changed the way we communicate. Selakovic ...