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Action emoticons and smileys.

Emoticons and Smiley Page http://www.muller-godschalk.com/emoticon.html

Emoticons or smileys explained

An Emoticon (or Smiley) is a sequence of ordinary characters you can find on your computer keyboard. Emoticons are used in e-mail, chat, SMS and other forms of communication using computers. The most popular emoticons are the smiling faces (smileys or smilies) that people use to say "don't take what I just wrote too seriously". If you don't see that it represents a smiling face, tip your head to the left and look at it again. The colon represents the eyes, the dash represents the nose, and the right parenthesis represent the mouth.

Many people use MSN and Yahoo, for this reason I added a list with MSN and Yahoo emoticons. When using these during your chat session, they will be converted to real icons.

As Google also released a messenger (Google Talk) you find a link to download this messenger, however you need a G-mail address to use this.

In the Bonus MSN emoticons you will now find special emoticons related to the upcoming holidays!
These emoticons show an Emotion through an 'Icon'. Over hundreds of these Emoticons are being used. The most common and funny can be found here.

A brief history of emoticons

Everybody uses them in messenger programs, chatrooms or e-mail. But a long time the emoticon (or smiley) was invented. Many different sources claim to know who thought about using reglular keyboard-characters to express emotion. On this page you find some of these claims put together. This gives you an overview about the timeperiod the emoticon started its life.

Scott E. Fahlman claims to be the inventor of the sideways “smiley face”. He also tells about this on his website. By the early 1980's there were problems to know if someone who posted a message on the online bulletin boards made a sarcastic remark, tried to me funny or made a serious remark. As a result of this signs were needed. So the idea for an emoticon was born.

After recovering old tapes Scott Fahlman can show that the first emoticon was used on 19th September 1982. The original Bullitin board thread can be found here.

Others claim that the first emoticon possibly appeared in 1979, first used by someone named Kevin Mackenzie. He is believed to have first used the -) symbol.

When you search the internet for earlier use of the emoticon you even end up to 1972 for the introduction of the original Smiley Face. However nobody actually claims to be the inventor at that time.

At this moment some hundreds / thousends emoticons are listed on several websites. Also this sites contains many. However new ones are thought of daily and it is impossible to keep up with all the new ones.

Action emoticons and smileys.

Emoticons are also used to show some kind of action. At this page you find some of the most common actions used during chat sessions. These are also used for all messenger programs, but in some cases become an icon.

:X Kissing Smiley
:-* Kissing Smiley
:-<> Kissing Smiley
;-<> I-want-to-kiss-you smiley
:-@ French Kiss
:-)~~(-: French Kiss
:-)~~~~ French Kiss
:-@ Screaming; Swearing
:-() Yelling
XD Laughing hilariously
:^):< Is Naked
>8D Evil or crazed laughter
X) Being mischievous
:-D Laughing
|-I Asleep
:] Talk to me
:OI Mouth Full
:p~~ Drooling
;-<> Drooling
!o) Winking (Taking a peak)
:{ }: Two people talking

 




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