Ubiquitous, possibly annoying :-) first popped up on an online bulletin board at 11:44 a.m. on Sept. 19, 1982.

Smile! A History of Emoticons. The digital smiley is 31 years old, but emoticons recur throughout modern history. By . Keith Houston. Share. Resize. This summer, Facebook rolled out "stickers" on ...

We may not spend a lot of time thinking about the emoticons we insert into our emails and text messages, but it turns out that they reveal something interesting about the way we perceive facial ...