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Common Emoticons and Acronyms
Emoticons (emotional icons) are used to compensate for the inability to convey voice inflections, facial expressions, and bodily gestures in written communication
http://www.pb.org/emoticon.html

The Unofficial Smiley Dictionary
Collection of basic, well used and unique smileys.
http://paul.merton.ox.ac.uk/ascii/smileys.html

Learn the Net: Smileys
You can personalize your written messages by using smileys or emoticons. You create smileys by typing characters from your keyboard.
http://www.learnthenet.com/english/html/25smile.htm

Smilies
Smiley page in German and English.
http://www.fmi.uni-passau.de/archive/div/smilies.html

Helwig's Smiley Dictionary
Built on December, 1994 from another smiley page.
http://www.cg.tuwien.ac.at/~helwig/smileys.html

Smiley's People
Neal Stephenson's anti-smiley screed from The New Republic.
http://www.spesh.com/lee/ns/smiley.html

Online Lingo
A secret foreign language of weird symbols. This list of emoticons and abbreviations will help you talk the talk of the online world.
http://www.thirdage.com/features/tech/netglos/index.html

Star Trek Smileys
Star Trek smileys and emoticons. A short introduction to smileys.
http://www.kasper-online.de/en/docs/startrek/smileys.htm

eHumor Central
Smilies and emoticons submitted by users. A few signature sized pictures too.
http://www.ehumorcentral.com/Directory/Jokes/756.html

Online Smiley Faces and Emoticons
A collection of smiley faces used in Internet messages including the specific ones used in Yahoo messenger chat application.
http://www.anvari.org/cols/Online_Smiley_Faces_and_Emoticons/

The Smileys Server
Live smiley gallery and collection.
http://smileys.antville.org/

Smiley Faces
Written by PCLink's teacher GW.
http://oz.uc.edu/~solkode/smileys.html

Also known as Put on a Happy Face
Basic, rude and kissing smileys.
http://anxiety-closet.mit.edu:8001/people/cordelia/smileys.html

Internet Smileys
Basic, emotional, widely used and unusual smileys.
http://members.aol.com/bearpage/smileys.htm

Smiley's Collection
This page was made to show all the types of smileys there are in the world (or close to it or not even close to it). There are a whole bunch of smileys listed below and a description of what it is.
http://www.angelfire.com/ny/Smileyscolection/

EmoticonUniverse.com
Expressing emotion in email correspondence. Directory and newsletter.
http://emoticonuniverse.com/

User Friendly
Editorial on the use of emoticons.
http://anxiety-closet.mit.edu:8001/people/cordelia/smileys_edit.html

Smileys and Emoticons
Recommended emoticons and smileys for email communication.
http://www.windweaver.com/emoticon.htm

Smiley Lore :-)
Scott E. Fahlman writes about how he started smileys in text email.
http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~sef/sefSmiley.htm

The First Smiley :-)
Smiley history, includes the orginal post introducing the smiley.
http://research.microsoft.com/~mbj/Smiley/Smiley.html

Webopedia - emoticon
This page describes the term emoticon and lists other pages on the web where you can find additional information.
http://webopedia.com/TERM/e/emoticon.html

Guardian Unlimited: Emoticons
Article by Sam Mohun. Published on the 20th anniversary of the smiley.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/netnotes/article/0,6729,795227,00.html

Yahoo Groups: Emoticons
Email list about how emoticons are useful.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/emoticon/

FastCompany: He Seconds That Emotion
Article about Scott Fahlman and emoticon use. Fahlman is the originator of the "emotional icon," or "emoticon".
http://www.fastcompany.com/articles/2001/04/emoticon.html

Fast Company: Wipe That Smile off Your Face
Linguist, Naomi Baron, predicts that abbreviations will replace emoticons and that electronic communication will grow increasingly cryptic as groups develop their own secret codes.
http://www.fastcompany.com/articles/2001/04/emoticon_sidebar.html

Smilies Overview
Most of the common smilies explained.
http://www.internetiquette.org/smilies.php

Internet Smileys
Information about how the first smiley was born and a short smileys dictionary.
http://savethepig.com/smiley.html

Smiley Dictionary: Emoticons
Vote for the top ten emoticons and check the database.
http://www.smileyworld.com/emoticons/

Computer Geek Emoticons
Emoticons are ASCII (plain text) graphics. To read these, tilt your head to the left until the dots look like a pair of eyes. (BTW, the noses are optional.)
http://www.pfccheatsheet.com/fnemot98.htm

Emoticons or Smileys
A sequence of ordinary characters you can find on your computer keyboard. Emoticons are used in e-mail and other forms of communication.
http://www.muller-godschalk.com/emoticon.html

Jessica's Smiley Faces
Large collection of smiley faces.
http://members.tripod.com/~jessicarae/smiles/index.html

Smilies Unlimited
Search the smiley faces database for the best face.
http://www.smiliesunlimited.com/

The Ultimate Chatlist: Emoticon Search
Search for an emoticon or look at the whole list.
http://www.chatlist.com/newcfdocs/searchfaces.cfm

NetLingo: Smileys and Emoticons
Online directory to look up words, acronyms, smileys, ASCII art, whatever you don't understand.
http://www.netlingo.com/smiley.cfm

Smilies, Smilies, Smilies
Selection of text smileys.
http://galway.informatik.uni-kl.de/rec/smilies.html

Emoticons
Big archive of emoticons and smileys. Funny faces, sad faces and happy faces.
http://www.won.nl/dsp/usr/mvketel/Internet/emoticon.html

Bronwen and Claire's Really Huge Emoticon Collection
The original emoticon site. Common and not so common emoticons.
http://www.angelfire.com/hi/hahakiam/emoticon.html

Canonical Smiley List
Compiled list of smileys and one line ASCII art.
http://www.astro.umd.edu/~marshall/smileys.html

Smile! It's Contagious!
List of emoticons on a page with some smiley graphics.
http://www.paradiseawaits.com/Smile.html

Emoticons
Compiled list of ASCII Email/chat code.
http://www.chirpingbird.com/netpets/html/computer/emoticon.html

Robert's Smiley Guide
Selection of text smileys. Click on the happy face to see the text smileys.
http://www.cling.gu.se/~cl4rande/smiley/

ChatMag: Smileys
A selection of smileys used in IRC and Internet chat rooms.
http://www.chatmag.com/help/smiley.html

WYSIWYG
Joan's collection of emoticons and acronyms. These one line faces are truly the most primitive of ASCII art and have been around the Internet for years.
http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/7373/smiley.htm

Emoticons
An extensive list. Emoticons are ASCII glyphs originally designed to show an emotional state in plain text messages.
http://www.cknow.com/ckinfo/acronyms/emoticons.htm

Emoticons Article
Online culture's foremost contribution to either the evolution of language or the death of literacy, depending on your point of view.
http://www.plastic.com/article.pl?sid=01/04/09/224239



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