Prof Fahlman posted the ‘sideways smiley’ onto an online computer science board at the university, and others contributed to the thread. Emoticons then reached world-wide discussion systems ...

5. Abraham Lincoln might have been the first to use an emoticon Whilst explaining the difference between emoticons and emoji, Professor Vyv Evans remarked on what might well have been the first ...

You can use this as many times as you want, but you can only choose up to 113 emoji to combine and they are all smileys. That means you can't be as creative in your creation as you might be in the ...