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Also known as Put on a Happy Face - Basic, rude and kissing smileys.
Bronwen and Claire's Really Huge Emoticon Collection - The original emoticon site. Common and not so common emoticons.
Canonical Smiley List - Compiled list of smileys and one line ASCII art.
ChatMag: Smileys - A selection of smileys used in IRC and Internet chat rooms.
Common Emoticons and Acronyms - Emoticons (emotional icons) are used to compensate for the inability to convey voice inflections, facial expressions, and bodily gestures in written communication
Computer Geek Emoticons - Emoticons are ASCII (plain text) graphics. To read these, tilt your head to the left until the dots look like a pair of eyes. (BTW, the noses are optional.)
eHumor Central - Smilies and emoticons submitted by users. A few signature sized pictures too.
Emoticons Article - Online culture's foremost contribution to either the evolution of language or the death of literacy, depending on your point of view.
Emoticons Online.com - This website helps you to find out the meaning of several emoticons and smileys.
Emoticons or Smileys - A sequence of ordinary characters you can find on your computer keyboard. Emoticons are used in e-mail and other forms of communication.
EmoticonUniverse.com - Expressing emotion in email correspondence. Directory and newsletter.
Fast Company: Wipe That Smile off Your Face - Linguist, Naomi Baron, predicts that abbreviations will replace emoticons and that electronic communication will grow increasingly cryptic as groups develop their own secret codes.
FastCompany: He Seconds That Emotion - Article about Scott Fahlman and emoticon use. Fahlman is the originator of the "emotional icon," or "emoticon".
The First Smiley :-) - Smiley history, includes the original 1982 post introducing the smiley.
Gmail: Help Center - Emoticons - List of emoticons available to use with Gmail.
Guardian Unlimited: Emoticons - Article by Sam Mohun. Published on the 20th anniversary of the smiley.
Helwig's Smiley Dictionary - Built on December, 1994 from another smiley page.
Internet Smileys - Basic, emotional, widely used and unusual smileys.
Learn the Net: Smileys - You can personalize your written messages by using smileys or emoticons. You create smileys by typing characters from your keyboard.
NetLingo: Smileys and Emoticons - Online directory to look up words, acronyms, smileys, ASCII art, whatever you don't understand.
Online Lingo - A secret foreign language of weird symbols. This list of emoticons and abbreviations will help you talk the talk of the online world.
Online Smiley Faces and Emoticons - A collection of smiley faces used in Internet messages including the specific ones used in Yahoo messenger chat application.
Robert's Smiley Guide - Selection of text smileys. Click on the happy face to see the text smileys.
Sharpened: Emoticons - A list of emoticons used in email, online chat, and instant messaging.
Smile! It's Contagious! - List of emoticons on a page with some smiley graphics.
Smiley Dictionary: Emoticons - Vote for the top ten emoticons and check the database.
Smiley Faces - Written by PCLink's teacher GW.
Smiley Lore :-) - Scott E. Fahlman writes about how he started smileys in text email.
Smileys and Emoticons - Recommended emoticons and smileys for email communication.
Smiley's Collection - This page was made to show all the types of smileys there are in the world (or close to it or not even close to it). There are a whole bunch of smileys listed below and a description of what it is.
Smiley's People - Neal Stephenson's anti-smiley screed from The New Republic.
The Smileys Server - Live smiley gallery and collection.
Smilies Unlimited - Search the smiley faces database for the best face.
Star Trek Smileys - Star Trek smileys and emoticons. A short introduction to smileys.
User Friendly - Editorial on the use of emoticons.
Webopedia - emoticon - This page describes the term emoticon and lists other pages on the web where you can find additional information.
What are Emoticons? - A list. Emoticons are ASCII glyphs originally designed to show an emotional state in plain text messages.
WYSIWYG - Joan's collection of emoticons and acronyms. These one line faces are truly the most primitive of ASCII art and have been around the Internet for years.
Yahoo Groups: Emoticons - Email list about how emoticons are useful.