William Shakespeare and Mark Twain may never have needed emoticons, but textual smiley faces have grinned, smirked, and grimaced their way into today's e-mail and instant-message conversations. The ...
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 ...