March 30 marks the 134th anniversary of the first appearance of the emoticon—well, depending on whom you ask. On March 30, 1881, Puck (a humor magazine) published a sm all item showing facial ...

Don't :- ( It's time to celebrate the emoticon's birthday by remembering the simpler days when all smileys were sideways. Emoticons might seem old-school today, but they’re technically millennial. The ...

Today, everybody knows that combination of a colon, dash and parenthesis is a smiley face. Until 32 years ago this week, that's all it was, a series of nonsensical punctuation. Then, Scott Fahlman, a ...