But emoji, like their forebears ascii emoticons, allow us to give text-based messages some much-needed context. If you're being sarcastic, then an emoji can help carry that in a text in a way that ...

ASCII Emoji Emoticons Unicode First published: Nov 10, 2014, 4:09 pm CST Marisa Kabas. Marisa Kabas is a lifestyle reporter and activist. Her work has been published ...

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The first American Standard Code for Information Interchange emoticons, or ASCII for short which is essentially just an encoding standard, were written by Scott Fahlman in 1982, ...

Emojify – not to be confused with Emojify – is a funky little iPhone app that transforms pictures into ASCII-style emoji art. Courtesy of Singapore-based app developers VoidWorks, Emojify lets ...

These ASCII emoticons take time and patience to master, but once you get the spacing down, you’ll feel like you’ve reached a post-text plane of self expression.

Nevertheless, ASCII emoticons were challenging to decipher, save for the most famous examples. The Smiley dictionary systematically removed the dash symbol that represented a nose, sorting icons ...

Taking inspiration from weather forecast symbols, existing ASCII emoticons which had been becoming increasingly popular, and the facial expressions of his friends and coworkers, Kurita designed ...

An emoji can function as a word substitute or as an expression of an emotion. Prior to the emergence of emoji there were emoticons – icons comprised of regular ASCII characters which, ...