Emojis have become an essential part of modern communication, helping people convey emotions and messages in a fun and ...

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 ...

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 ...

Researchers at Amsterdam University, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) and the University of Haifa recently teamed up to investigate the effect of smileys and similar emoticons on ...

“That’s not at all surprising once you understand how these different smiley faces work,” the psychologist explained. “It can sometimes be difficult to interpret the tone of a ...