Basic, rude and kissing smileys.

The original emoticon site. Common and not so common emoticons.

Compiled list of smileys and one line ASCII art.

A selection of smileys used in IRC and Internet chat rooms.

Emoticons (emotional icons) are used to compensate for the inability to convey voice inflections, facial expressions, and bodily gestures in written communication

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.)

Smilies and emoticons submitted by users. A few signature sized pictures too.

Big archive of emoticons and smileys. Funny faces, sad faces and happy faces.

Compiled list of ASCII Email/chat code.

An extensive list. Emoticons are ASCII glyphs originally designed to show an emotional state in plain text messages.

Online culture's foremost contribution to either the evolution of language or the death of literacy, depending on your point of view.

A sequence of ordinary characters you can find on your computer keyboard. Emoticons are used in e-mail and other forms of communication.

Expressing emotion in email correspondence. Directory and newsletter.

Linguist, Naomi Baron, predicts that abbreviations will replace emoticons and that electronic communication will grow increasingly cryptic as groups develop their own secret codes.

Article about Scott Fahlman and emoticon use. Fahlman is the originator of the "emotional icon," or "emoticon".

Article by Sam Mohun. Published on the 20th anniversary of the smiley.

Built on December, 1994 from another smiley page.

Basic, emotional, widely used and unusual smileys.

Information about how the first smiley was born and a short smileys dictionary.

Large collection of smiley faces.

You can personalize your written messages by using smileys or emoticons. You create smileys by typing characters from your keyboard.

Online directory to look up words, acronyms, smileys, ASCII art, whatever you don't understand.

A secret foreign language of weird symbols. This list of emoticons and abbreviations will help you talk the talk of the online world.

A collection of smiley faces used in Internet messages including the specific ones used in Yahoo messenger chat application.

Selection of text smileys. Click on the happy face to see the text smileys.

A list of emoticons used in email, online chat, and instant messaging.

List of emoticons on a page with some smiley graphics.

Vote for the top ten emoticons and check the database.

Written by PCLink's teacher GW.

Scott E. Fahlman writes about how he started smileys in text email.

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.

Neal Stephenson's anti-smiley screed from The New Republic.

Recommended emoticons and smileys for email communication.

Smiley page in German and English.

Most of the common smilies explained.

Search the smiley faces database for the best face.

Star Trek smileys and emoticons. A short introduction to smileys.

Smiley history, includes the orginal post introducing the smiley.

Live smiley gallery and collection.

Search for an emoticon or look at the whole list.

Collection of basic, well used and unique smileys.

Editorial on the use of emoticons.

This page describes the term emoticon and lists other pages on the web where you can find additional information.

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.

Email list about how emoticons are useful.