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An emoticon (, , rarely , ), short for emotion icon, is a pictorial representation of a facial expression using characters—usually punctuation marks, numbers and letters—to express a person's feelings, mood or reaction, without needing to describe it in detail. ASCII emoticons can be traced back hundreds of years with various one-off uses. The protocol as a way to use them to communicate emotion in conversations is credited to computer scientist Scott Fahlman, who proposed what came to be known as "smileys"—:-) and —in a message on the bulletin board system (BBS) of Carnegie Mellon University in 1982. In Western countries, emoticons are usually written at a right angle to the direction of the text. Users from Japan popularized a kind of emoticon called ''kaomoji'', using Japanese's larger character sets. This style arose on ASCII NET of Japan in 1986. They are also known as ''verticons'' (from ''vertical emoticon'') due to their readability without rotations. This ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Kaomoji
Kaomoji emerged in Japan in the 1980s as a way of portraying facial expressions using strings of text characters, such as: * (^ω^) → happy, excited, smile * ( ͡o╭╮ ͡o)→ unhappy, sad, frown Kaomoji appeared in parallel with the emergence of emoticons (smileys) in the United States in the same decade. Unlike Kaomoji, emoticons generally use characters to imitate facial expressions sideways, such as: * :) or :-) → happy * :( or :-( → unhappy Kaomoji (''plural'' kaomoji as in Japan, occasionally, kaomojis) predate and probably inspired the emergence of emoji in Japan. History Users from Japan popularized a style of emoticons that can be understood without tilting one's head. This style arose on ASCII NET, an early Japanese online service, in the 1980s. They often include Japanese typography in addition to ASCII characters, and in contrast to Western-style emoticons, tend to emphasize the eyes, rather than the mouth. Wakabayashi Yasushi is credited with invent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
