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 ...

What does the upside-down smiley face mean? The upside-down smiley emoji tends to be used in a sarcastic sense. The emoji is a flipped version of the usual smile face which is one of the most used ...

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PHOENIX (AZFamily) — There have been some pictures circulating around social media showing a “smiley face” in the night sky that supposedly will be visible on the morning of April 25. In reality, this ...

Depending on who you’re talking to, emoticons have been adding drama to our typefaces since 1982, possibly even as early as the late 1960s. But was the emoticon actually invented 300 years earlier by ...

Research psychologists have known for years that certain facial expressions of emotion are easily recognized by people around the world. Sad faces and happy faces, for instance, are recognized with a ...

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The moon and two planets will align this week to create a smiley face in the sky — and you can see it if you wake up before the sun on Friday. In the early hours of Friday, April 25, Venus, Saturn and ...