Early-Rate Deadline: This Friday, June 27. Apply Now. ... If you receive a single smiley face emoticon in a professional email from a colleague, you’re highly unlikely to think, ...

We love laughing with Ricky Smiley -- now he's back, and he's funnier than ever. NPR's Tavis Smiley talks with Ricky "no relation to Tavis" Smiley about his blooming career in comedy.

Typography continued to evolve as wingdings were developed in 1990, allowing users access to symbols through their keyboard. Pictographic representations of everything from smiley faces to ...

Scott Fahlman, Research Professor at Carnegie Mellon's School of Computer Science, is credited with inventing the first email smiley face back in 1982 :-) He speaks with Jian about the ubiquity of ...

Scott Fahlman, a professor at Carnegie Mellon University, posted the first emoticon at 11:44 a.m. 25 years ago. GENE J. PUSKAR/ASSOCIATED PRESS PITTSBURGH — It was a serious contribution to the ...

The first emoticon — the text smiley — sprang into existence 40 years ago on Sept. 19, 1982, and emojis have been part of online life ever since.

PITTSBURGH — Happy birthday to the emoticon -- the sideways smiley-face that changed the way we communicate emotion online. Consisting of three keyboard strokes (colon, hyphen, close parentheses ...