History of Emoticon

	Revision 13 . . (edit) September 15, 2001 11:51 pm by Koyaanis Qatsi
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	Revision 10 . . September 13, 2001 2:27 am by Larry Sanger [Lower-casing words that should be lowercased. Please don't uppercase words just because the first letters of Wikipedia articles are uppercased! That's not necessary!]

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Emoticon is a synthetic word based on emotion? and icon. An emoticon is a sequence of ASCII characters used to represent a human face and express an emotion. Emoticons that express happy or positive emotions are typically classified as smileys. Emoticons are commonly used in email messages or in chat?. To more easily recognise them, put your head on either your left or right shoulder, depending on whether the "top" of the emoticon is on the left or the right.

Emoticon is a synthetic word based on "emotion?" and "icon." An emoticon is a sequence of ASCII characters used to represent a human face and express an emotion. Emoticons that express happy or positive emotions are typically classified as smileys. Emoticons are commonly used in email messages or in chat?. To more easily recognise them, put your head on either your left or right shoulder, depending on whether the "top" of the emoticon is on the left or the right.

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There are a lot of possibilities, because people are very good at creating and interpreting pictures as faces. See [ascii art]?.

There are a lot of possibilities, because people are very good at creating and interpreting pictures as faces. See ASCII art.

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