Since the dawn of humanity, mankind has communicated via symbols. Indeed, it was a turning point for civilisation when the Sumerians carved a GOT BARLEY? icon on a rock. (The Sumerians also invented ...

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Hundreds of sheep have been painted with a bizarre 'smiley face' symbol in fields across the country. The strange image has sparked debate on social networking sites after it was first reported on 20 ...

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We often think of emoticons arriving with the invention of text speak - when people first started to send messages using mobile phones and in emails. But the first emoticon – specifically the smiley ...

Today emoticons are so pervasive that behavioral science has taken an active interest in how people use them. Among the evidence (recently surveyed by Roni Jacobson at the great new Science of Us blog ...

The man who owns the rights to the iconic "smiley face" symbol has said that only bringing out small numbers of emojis each year limits people's freedom of speech online. Nicolas Loufrani, CEO of The ...

With three simple keystrokes, Scott Fahlman brought a smile to the internet. In a 1982 message board post, Fahlman, a computer scientist at Carnegie-Mellon University, proposed using typographical ...

Whether viewed as a symbol of hope or used as an expressive emoji, Smiley’s history is one of positivity and innovation. As well as being interwoven within culture and forming part of our everyday ...

Researchers have found that emoticons, though they obviously resemble little faces, aren't actually processed in our brain the same way. Instead, the smiley symbols have more in common with logographs ...

User-Created Clip by CSPANCLASSROOM December 29, 2015 2015-12-20T14:54:03-05:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/6ed/20151220145553003_hd.jpgCharles Ball talked about ...