Emoticons? Yes, Emoticons were our favorite ones some time back before the emojis and animations took over it. It is the easiest way to express one's feelings and expressions such as smile, cry ...

Anyone can submit an idea for a new emoji. The Unicode Standard -- a universal character encoding standard -- is responsible for creating new emoji. Unicode proposed nine new emoji in November, 2024, ...

Emoticons then reached world-wide discussion systems such as Usenet - similar to what we would now call an internet forum. An emoticon is a blend of ‘emotion’ and ‘icon’, made up of ...