The classic smiley face emoji now means something completely different to those under 30. Instead of conveying happiness , the grinning yellow face is now seen as dismissive, passive-aggressive ...

New research shows that adding those tiny digital images to your texts can make you look more attentive and caring. In a ...

Typography continued to evolve as wingdings were developed in 1990, allowing users access to symbols through their keyboard. Pictographic representations of everything from smiley faces to ...

The upside-down smiley face emoji was released in Apple emojis in 2015. However, Google released their own version in 2008 and it has been around ever since. Most read in Tech ...

The Holy Moly emoticon first appeared on Smiley Central in 2003. The gif shows a wide-eyed and open-mouthed yellow emoji with a speech bubble over its head displaying the phrase.

Waving hand, smiley face, thumbs up. Word of Mouth's Michael Rosen and Dr Laura Wright have been looking at emoji - possibly the world's first truly global form of communication.