The smiling world of Emoticons
June 15, 2009
Did you know that today’s emoticons had recently its 30th Birthday celebrations? To be exact, it was on 12th April 1979 when a certain Kevin McKenzie made the proposal to extend the boring letters with symbols which express the emotions of the writers. As you may imagine, this proposal was enthusiastically received.
Emoticons are small icons, preferably used in e-mails or chats. They serve both to express your own emotions as well as to save on paperwork. Most emoticons are rotated faces by 90°, inspired of Smilies.
Just a tip: If you can’t see the face in the following table it sometimes helps to turn the monitor to the side. ;-)
| 0=) | Angel |
| ~:0 | Baby |
| :-o | Bored |
| :-# | Braces |
| =^.^= | Cat |
| :O) | Clown |
| O.o | Confused |
| B-) | Cool |
| :’( | Crying |
| |_P | Cup of Coffee |
| *-* | Dazed |
| #-o | Doh! |
| :*) | Drunk |
| -@–@- | Eyeglasses |
| () | Football |
| :-( | Frowning |
| :-P | Frustrated |
| 8-) | Glasses |
| $_$ | Greedy |
| :-> | Grin |
| :-) | Happy |
| <3 | Heart |
| { } | Hug |
| :-| | Indifferent |
| X-p | Joking |
| \VVV/ | King |
| :-* | Kiss |
| =D | Laughing out Loud |
| )-: | Left-handed Sad Face |
| (-: | Left-handed Smiley Face |
| <3 | Love |
| =/ | Mad |
| :-)(-: | Married |
| <:3)~ | Mouse |
| ~,~ | Napping |
| :-B | Nerd |
| ^_^ | Overjoyed |
| <1:0 | Partying |
| :-/ | Perplexed |
| =8) | Pig |
| \&&&/ | Princess |
| \%%%/ | Queen |
| =D | Really Happy |
| @~)~~~~ | Rose |
| :-( | Sad |
| :-7 | Sarcastic |
| :-@ | Screaming |
| =O | Shocked |
| O-\-<]: | Skateboarder |
| :-) | Smile |
| :-Q | Smoking |
| :> | Smug |
| :P | Sticking Tongue Out |
| :o | Surprised |
| :-{ } | Talking |
| (:| | Tired |
| :-& | Tongue-tied |
| =-O | Uh-oh |
| :-\ | Undecided |
| **== | United States Flag |
| :-E | Vampire |
| ;) | Winking |
| |-O | Yawn |
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