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 ...

Although Shigetaka Kurita is often credited as the original emoji creator, the story is more complex and nuanced – and what better time to tell this story than following World Emoji Day, which takes ...

Conceptualized by Nicolas Loufrani in 1997 at the height of the early internet age and ASCII (text-based) emoticons. The original set of 3-dimensional Smileys represents not only the ancestral roots ...