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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Social media networks need to introduce more colors for their emoticon graphics to stop users "misleading" each other, a specialist has warned. The claims stems from new research by experts from ...

With three simple keystrokes, Scott Fahlman brought a smile to the internet. In a 1982 message board post, Fahlman, a computer scientist at Carnegie-Mellon University, proposed using typographical ...

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 ...

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 ...