Prof Fahlman posted the ‘sideways smiley’ onto an online computer science board at the university, and others contributed to the thread. Emoticons then reached world-wide discussion systems ...

Emoticons are expressions of emotions while emojis are used to explain things. So, for example, 😅😂🤣🥲 are emoticons while ...

5. Abraham Lincoln might have been the first to use an emoticon Whilst explaining the difference between emoticons and emoji, Professor Vyv Evans remarked on what might well have been the first ...

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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.

Researchers at Amsterdam University, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) and the University of Haifa recently teamed up to investigate the effect of smileys and similar emoticons on ...