Today, everybody knows that combination of a colon, dash and parenthesis is a smiley face. Until 32 years ago this week, that's all it was, a series of nonsensical punctuation. Then, Scott Fahlman, a ...

To some, an email isn't complete without the inclusion of :-) or :-(. To others, the very idea of using "emoticons" - communicative graphics - makes the blood boil and represents all that has gone ...

Happy birthday to the emoticon -- the sideways smiley-face that changed the way we communicate emotion online.Consisting of three keyboard strokes (colon, hyphen, close parentheses), the popular ...

Can emoticons affect relationships? After 30 years of using them, we decide to have a look at the power of emoticons... It's impossible for some people to go a single text or email without including a ...