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 ...

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 ...

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Pupils are losing marks in their exams because standards of handwriting are declining and emoticons are creeping into answers, a survey revealed yesterday. More than a third of teachers complained ...

In this 2016 photo taken in New York, Julie Zhuo, product design director at Facebook, demonstrates new emoji-like stickers customers will be able to press in addition to the like button. (AP ...