Kids these days are all about the emoticons. But before Apple incorporated an emoticon palette directly into its mobile and desktop operating systems, people who were too lazy to type out real words ...

Emoji have become a fully integrated part of our digital communication, but where the hell did all these little hieroglyphics come from? Less than a decade ago nobody had even heard of them, and now ...

Emoticons have been around a lot longer than one might think. In a March 30, 1881 item in Puck which included typographical representations of joy, melancholy, indifference, and astonishment, it was ...

Emojify – not to be confused with Emojify – is a funky little iPhone app that transforms pictures into ASCII-style emoji art. Courtesy of Singapore-based app developers VoidWorks, Emojify lets you ...

But perhaps the strangest morsel of data published is a massive internal repository of ASCII emoticons. A bafflingly huge collection of them. Aptly titled ‘Faces of the Internet’, the list was ...

So, you’re curious about emoji… ? What the heck is emoji anyway? They’re just little symbols you can use in text in addition to your usual alphabet or pictographic characters. Things like ? and ? and ...