Some call them smileys, others refer to them as emoticons, and a lot of people put them in emails, SMS, and instant messages every day; Ask.com can help people figure out what some of the odder ones mean.
:-) or >:-( there is probably a combination of characters to express it in text. Instant messaging clients like AIM and Yahoo! Messenger translate those smileys into little bits of artwork, some of which are even animated. Ask.com has made it a little easier to find the meaning behind the smileys with an update to their Smart Answer feature. The team behind the service first recorded smiley on a computer network showed up in 1982, at Carnegie Mellon University. The introduction of a joke into an otherwise serious online discussion sailed over the virtual heads of participants. After several suggestions for joke markers were bounced around, Scott Fahlman suggested the smiley and the frown. The three-character smiley has endured for almost a generation. Tag: Add to Del.icio.us | Digg | Yahoo! My Web | Furl Bookmark Murdok: David Utter is a staff writer for Murdok covering technology and business.Emoting Over Search With Ask.com
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