It's rare for Microsoft products to invoke a pleasant sense of nostalgia, but MSN Messenger is a piece of software that does. The instant messaging software has been long dead, with Microsoft ...

Emoticons on Facebook Mobile Messenger. In relation to this, Facebook rolled out a number of emoticons to its mobile messenger app. However, it uses a different set of images that cannot be ...

Right now there’s only 21 emoticons in the menu, including the standard frown and wink, as well as a heart, devil, and the Like icon. Click one, and the text code for it will be added to your chat.

No more winks, nudges, or shoddy modem connections cutting into your emoticon battles with your best friend (everyone did that, right?): Microsoft's MSN Messenger will officially be signing off ...

If you use chat on Google+ or Gchat in Gmail, you’re probably familiar with certain emoticons that turn into animations. For example, “<3" will animated into a red heart. Here are some more ...

After October 31st Chinese Messenger users will need to use Skype, bringing an end to 15 years of the service. MSN Messenger started off life in 1999 as a rival to AOL’s AIM service.

Facebook's Chat feature is great and all, but it always seemed to lack any truly amazing emoticons. That's not a problem anymore though, because the social network decided to give us the ability ...

Are Emoticons the Future of Language? Special | 5m 35s Video has Closed Captions | CC. Written language is a common replacement for face to face chat or phone calls. In the digital age, we ...

As MSN Messenger grew in popularity, additional features were created like custom emoticons, games and a nudge feature that shakes the chat window. In 2005, Microsoft rebranded MSN Messenger to ...

We've moved on to the likes of Facebook's Messenger and WhatsApp, but we're still communicating with a relic from MSN Messenger and other instant messaging programs: Emoticons, or as they're now ...

No more winks, nudges, or shoddy modem connections cutting into your emoticon battles with your best friend: Microsoft's MSN Messenger will officially be signing off Oct. 31.