Emoticon
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An emoticon, short for "emotion icon", also known simply as an emote, is a pictorial representation of a facial expression using characters—usually punctuation marks, numbers, and letters—to express a person's feelings or mood, or as a time-saving method. The first ASCII emoticons, :-) and :-(, were written by Scott Fahlman in 1982, but emoticons actually originated on the PLATO IV computer system in 1972.
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See also
- ASCII art
- Emoji
- Emotion Markup Language (EML)
- Emotions in virtual communication
- Henohenomoheji
- Hieroglyph
- iConji
- Internet slang
- Irony punctuation
- Kaoani
- List of emoticons
- Martian language
- Pixel art
- Smiley
- Tête à Toto
- Text
- Typographic alignment
- Typographic approximation
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