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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 ...

We already know that sarcasm is hard to communicate via email. Well, according to this study, it turns out that warmth is as well. People often use smiley face emoticons in their emails as a way to ...

An online debate broke out earlier this week over two otherwise unremarkable lines in a 1648 poem by the English poet Robert Herrick: The couplet includes something that most modern readers would ...

Whenever I give a presentation on the impact of body language in the workplace, I always include a section on the power of a smile. That’s because research shows that a smiling expression sends ...

We often think of emoticons arriving with the invention of text speak - when people first started to send messages using mobile phones and in emails. But the first emoticon – specifically the smiley ...

The iconic yellow Smiley face is everywhere in CentralWorld. The man who has helped catapult this character to fame tells you everything you need to know about it. Smiley, the iconic yellow face with ...