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EMOTICONS

Emoticons are ASCII glyphs originally designed to show an emotional state in plain text messages. Over time they have turned into an art form as well.

Emoticon etiquette.”

Don’t overdo the use of emoticons. More than one in a paragraph and three in a message are a good indicator you are a “newbie.”

Please note: The nature of the internet has always been an “anything goes” type of culture.

In most cases, emoticons are constructed to be viewed by tilting your head left so the right side of the emoticon is at the bottom of the “picture.

For lots more emoticons, click here.

Near as any research can pinpoint, the emoticon was invented by Scott E. Fahlman on 19 September 1982 in a message posted on Carnegie Mellon University bulletin board systems.

Fahlman is quoted as saying “I propose that the following character sequence for joke markers: . Read it sideways.