Emoticons (also called smileys) are used in email, chat and other Net communication. They allow the writer to show humour, sarcasm, etc. This is useful in the typewritten medium of the Internet where communication can be misunderstood. Smileys are faces made from the basic keyboard (ASCII) characters. To 'read' them look at them sideways. :-) Text based only, not web graphics. See Emojis.
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- Emoticons or Smileys A sequence of ordinary characters you can find on your computer keyboard. Emoticons are used in e-mail and other forms of communication.
- Smiley's Collection This page was made to show all the types of smileys there are in the world (or close to it).
- Smileys and Emoticons Recommended emoticons and smileys for email communication.
- NetLingo: Smileys and Emoticons Online directory to look up words, acronyms, smileys, ASCII art, whatever you don't understand.
- Helwig's Smiley Dictionary Built on December, 1994 from another smiley page.
- Smiley's People Neal Stephenson's anti-smiley screed from The New Republic.
- Star Trek Smileys Star Trek smileys and emoticons. A short introduction to smileys.
- Online Smiley Faces and Emoticons A collection of smiley faces used in Internet messages..
- The First Smiley :-) Smiley history, includes the original 1982 post introducing the smiley.
- Yahoo Groups - Emoticons Email list about how emoticons are useful.
- Emoticons Online.com Listing emoticons and smileys.
- Smiley Lore :-) Scott E. Fahlman writes about how he started smileys in text email.
- Guardian Unlimited: Emoticons Article by Sam Mohun. Published on the 20th anniversary of the smiley.
- Sharpened: Emoticons A list of emoticons used in email, online chat, and instant messaging.
- FastCompany: He Seconds That Emotion Article about Scott Fahlman and emoticon use. Fahlman is the originator of the "emotional icon," or "emoticon".
- Fast Company: Wipe That Smile off Your Face Linguist, Naomi Baron, predicts that abbreviations will replace emoticons and that electronic communication will grow increasingly cryptic as groups develop their own secret codes.
- Bronwen and Claire's Really Huge Emoticon Collection The original emoticon site. Common and not so common emoticons.
- Gmail: Using Chat Emoticons List of emoticons available to use with Gmail.
- Cool Smileys An attempt to create a list of all the text emoticons and smileys in the world.
- Emoticon Central Directory of text-based emoticons and smileys to use in online forums and email.
- Looking for Sigmund Freud's Smiley Five states of a smiley of Sigmund Freud. Emoticons leading to a gif, a dedicated signature.
- ASCII.li Text emoticon generator.