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Facebook lets you add special characters such as smileys, hearts and diamonds by using the "Alt" key codes that are built into Windows. There are several hundred special characters that you can choose ...

TikTok might be best known for its dance routines and challenges, but it's also the home of nearly 50 "secret" emoticons that are exclusive to the app and include graphics that look significantly ...

Emoji has sort of taken over my iMessage conversations on the iPhone lately, and I’m willing to bet you use a lot of the cute little pictures too. What if I told you there was a hidden treasure trove ...

In the early days of the internet, computer scientist Scott Fahlman ran into a problem on Carnegie Mellon University’s online bulletin boards. People used the bulletin boards — a kind of primitive ...

Twenty-five years ago, Carnegie Mellon University professor Scott E. Fahlman says, he was the first to use three keystrokes — a colon followed by a hyphen and a parenthesis — as a horizontal "smiley ...

That evening, computer scientist Howard Gayle responded with a facetious message titled “WARNING!” He claimed that an ...

Owen Churches does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...

The Giddy Syrup Emoticon is yours to own for free in Fortnite Chapter 5 Season 3. (Image via Epic Games) Epic Games has just released the Giddy Syrup Emoticon in Fortnite, a free cosmetic that players ...

The world's first emoticon may have existed long before computers, smartphones and the Internet ever even existed. A literary critic has discovered what could be the first smiley face buried within a ...