![]() ![]() ![]() In Western countries, emoticons are usually written at a right angle to the direction of the text. The first ASCII emoticons are generally 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. ![]() An emoticon ( / ɪ ˈ m oʊ t ɪ k ɒ n/, ə- MOH-tə-kon, rarely pronounced / ɪ ˈ m ɒ t ɪ k ɒ n/), 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, mood or reaction, or as a time-saving method.
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