The human brain has adapted to react to emoticons in the same way we would to expressions on real human faces, new research suggests. Having first appeared in the 1980s, the pattern of brain activity ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

With communication moving at the speed of light, it makes sense that you'd want to take the quickest path possible to inform your employees of your emotions. Doing this via text message requires just ...

‘Hi there! Happy face. Great to see you again. Wink. Oh, you can’t meet me later? Frown.’ Surely only a planet full of absolute cretins would communicate this way with one another? Well then, welcome ...

After trialling the use of emoticons and tags for posts with a small group of American users, the use of the tags has been rolled out to more users in the US. According to TechCrunch, the tagging ...

Diwali is a festival of lights also known as Deepawali. On the occasion, people get ready to light up diyas, and firecrackers with their friends and family. However, if you don’t get a chance to be ...

This lovely, light dessert is like a smiley-face emoticon punctuating a meal. It is sunny and sweet, the perfect extra something to leave you completely satisfied. But this finishing statement has ...

Using three keystrokes to suggest a smile may not be a great scientific advance, but the emoticon has been simple, useful and enduring. The Emoticon Turns 30, Seems Happy About It :-) The emoticon, ...