An emoticon is a set of symbols, or an icon, that is a visual representation of a facial expression or body position to convey a mood, attitude, or emotion, originally used in emails and text messages. The most famous is the smiley face, i.e. smile - :-).
There is no clear and reliable evidence of who invented the smiley face. Of course, you can point to ancient excavations, finds of various inscriptions on the rocks, etc., but these will only be guesses of each of us.
Of course, to say for sure that the smiley is a modern invention is a bit wrong. The use of emoticons can be traced back to the 19th century. Examples of their use can be found in a copy of the American magazine Puck from 1881, see example:
Yes, there are a lot of such examples in history, but it is generally believed that Scott Fahlman, a researcher at Carnegie Mellon University, was responsible for the first digital form of an emoticon. He suggested distinguishing serious messages from frivolous ones by means of using emoticons :-) and :-(. It was already on September 19, 1982. This is especially useful when the mood of your message may be misinterpreted.
YES, BUT YOU NEVER COME ON TIME, ANYWHERE.
YES, BUT YOU NEVER COME ON TIME, ANYWHERE. ;-)
Nevertheless, emoticons did not become so popular, but revealed their potential after 14 years, thanks to a Frenchman who lived in London - Nicolas Laufrani... The idea arose even earlier, with Nicolas's father, Franklin Laufrani. It was he who, as a journalist for the French newspaper France Soir, published an article on January 1, 1972, under the headline "Take time to smile!", Where he used emoticons to highlight his article. Later he patented it as a trademark and created the production of some goods using a smiley. Then a company was created under the brand name Smiley, where father Franklin Laufrani became president and son Nicolas Laufrani became CEO.
It was Nicolas who noticed the popularity of ASCII emoticons, which were very much used on mobile phones, and began developing directly animated emoticons that would correspond to ASCII emoticons consisting of simple characters, i.e. what we now use and used to call - smiley face... He created a catalog of emoticons, which he divided into categories "Emotions", "Holidays", "Food", etc. And in 1997, this catalog was registered with the US Copyright Office.
Around the same time in Japan, Shigetaka Kurita began designing emoticons for I-mode. But unfortunately, the widespread use of this project did not happen. Maybe because in 2001, Laufrani's creations were licensed by Samsung, Nokia, Motorola, and other mobile phone manufacturers who later began offering them to their users. After that, the world was just inundated with various interpretations of emoticons and emoticons.
The following variations with greases and emoticons became the appearance stickers in 2011. They were created by the leading Internet company in Korea - Naver. The company has developed a messaging platform called - Line... Same messaging app as WhatsApp. LINE was developed in the months following the 2011 Japanese tsunami. Initially, LIne was created to find friends and relatives during and after natural disasters and in the first year, the number of users grew to 50 million. After, with the publication of games and stickers, it totaled more than 400 million, which later became one of the most popular apps in Japan, especially among teenagers.
Smilies, emoticons and stickers today,more than 30 years later, they began to take a place in everyday conversations and correspondence of people. According to studies conducted in the United States, it was found that 74 percent of people in the United States regularly use stickers, emoticons in their online communication, sending an average of 96 emoticons or stickers per day. The reason for this explosive use Emoji is that creative characters developed by various companies help to express our feelings, help to add humor, sadness, happiness, etc.
The emoticons in the tables will be gradually replenished, so go to the site and look for the meaning of the desired emoticons.
A base of emoticons that can be used in various communication services and on various web pages. You can copy any emoticon and paste it into an e-mail, VKontakte, Twitter or Facebook message - it will be displayed in all these services and will have the same meaning. At the same time, it does not matter from which device it was sent.
Please note that the display of icons depends on the operating systems, browsers and communication services that you use. Read more about this below.
Emoticon categories:
How Emojis differ from regular emoticons
Emoji (Emoji) is the language of ideograms and emoticons that can be displayed both in a separate text message and on a web page. Emoji is part of Unicode, which allows you to copy the emoticon code to the clipboard and paste it into a messenger or social network message, an e-mail, or a forum. In this case, the symbol will be visible everywhere and will have the same meaning. It doesn't matter what device it was sent from.
Emoji were originally available exclusively to smartphone users living in Japan. They were invented by Shigetaka Kurita, a programmer of Japanese mobile operator NTT docomo. He saw that users often draw faces using brackets, quotes and dashes to express emotions, and decided to replace them with pictograms.
The Western world first noticed Japanese icons in 2011, when Apple included them in keyboards on devices running iOS 5. Emojis were also incorporated into Unicode at the same time.
Emoji display issues
Depending on operating systems, browsers and communication services, emoji emoticons.
Since most sites use UTF-8 encoding, it is possible that you will see empty squares instead of smilies. However, recently, browser developers have been solving this problem. The latest version of the web browser displays Emoji most correctly. Support for Japanese icons is also implemented in the updated. Most emoticons support, and. But for users of Internet navigators, we do not recommend actively communicating using Emoji - you will not see at least 60% of what you send or receive.
The OS version also matters. Windows 10 displays more emoji emoticons than Windows 8, and version 7 has even fewer. In XP they are not supported at all. Interestingly, in versions 8 and 10 of Microsoft's operating systems, most of them are already integrated into, but it is not very convenient to use it.
Incomplete implementation in messengers and social networks
Many emoji smilies are integrated into Hangouts, and VKontakte, but this integration is incomplete - if you can insert such an icon into a VKontakte message, then the question is,
Answer 3 simple questions: Get startedThis emoticon can be sent using the following methods:
- Open the emoticon palette, find the given emoticon and click on it. The smiley image will appear in the input field and now all that remains is to send a message.
- Type or copy one of the following codes into the input field and send a message:
(gran)
(Gran) - If someone sent you "Happy granny" emoticon, highlight it, right-click and select "Copy selection". After that, right-click in the input field and select "Paste as text". Now you can send your message.
# Download "Happy granny" emoticon:
To download this animated emoticon, right-click on the link and select "Save". Also, you can open this link in a new browser tab, and then press the key combination Ctrl + S
# Keywords:
mothers day, super grandmother, superwoman, funny, awesome, woman, girl, dance, dancing, grandma, grandma, elderly
For your convenience, a special form has been developed with which you can:
- Find emoticons for specific words. For example, if you want to find New Year's emoticons, enter "new year" in the search field and only those emoticons will be shown that contain this word in the name of the emoticon, in the list of labels or secret codes.
- Filter emoticons based on availability:
"All" - shows all emoticons without exception
"Hidden" - only hidden emoticons that few know about
"Visible" - emoticons that are present in the emoticon palette - Sort emoticons according to the properties you need.
For example, this allows you to show the most popular emoticons or the most recent ones at the top of the list. - Show emoticons only for a specific version of Skype. For example, use this option to find out which emoticons are supported by your Skype, or to make sure that the other person sees the emoticon you send. Please note that this is only the version of Skype for Windows.
- Smile. An animated picture (GIF) that is used in Skype chat. Please note that the speed and quality of the picture may differ slightly from the original smiley. If you want to see the full-size image, click on the name of the smiley.
- Description. The name of the emoticon with a link on a separate page where you can see the full-size emoticon and find details about it. Also, this column contains labels that describe the emoticon and help you find similar emoticons. If you click on a shortcut, only emoticons with this shortcut will be shown (in this case, you can select several shortcuts in order to narrow the list of emoticons). To exclude a shortcut from the filter, click on it again.
- The code. Typically, to send an emoji in Skype chat, users use the emoji palette. But there is another way - you can send the interlocutor a special code, which, when sent, turns into an emoticon (by the way, this is the only way to send hidden emoticons). Each Skype emoticon has one or more special codes and all are listed on this page (to show hidden codes, just click on the symbol ↓ opposite the desired smile).
- Version. Contains information about which versions of Skype for Windows support this emoticon. Examples:
* → means supported by all versions
2.3 / * → from version 2.3 to current
* / 3.4 → from the first version to 3.4
4.5 / 5.6 → from 4.5 to 5.6
