Gmail: Help Center - Emoticons
- List of emoticons available to use with Gmail.
- http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=34056

What are Emoticons?
- An extensive list. Emoticons are ASCII glyphs originally designed to show an emotional state in plain text messages.
- http://www.cknow.com/faqs/What/Emoticons.html

Smiley Lore :-)
- Scott E. Fahlman writes about how he started smileys in text email.
- http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~sef/sefSmiley.htm

User Friendly
- Editorial on the use of emoticons.
- http://www.mit.edu:8001/people/cordelia/smileys_edit.html

Also known as Put on a Happy Face
- Basic, rude and kissing smileys.
- http://www.mit.edu:8001/people/cordelia/smileys.html

Emoticons Online.com
- This website helps you to find out the meaning of several emoticons and smileys.
- http://www.emoticons-online.com

Emoticons
- Big archive of emoticons and smileys. Funny faces, sad faces and happy faces.
- http://www.won.nl/dsp/usr/mvketel/Internet/emoticon.html

Sharpened: Emoticons
- A list of emoticons used in email, online chat, and instant messaging.
- http://www.sharpened.net/glossary/emoticons.php

Webopedia - emoticon
- This page describes the term emoticon and lists other pages on the web where you can find additional information.
- http://webopedia.com/TERM/e/emoticon.html

Smiley Dictionary: Emoticons
- Vote for the top ten emoticons and check the database.
- http://www.smileyworld.com/emoticons/

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.
- http://www.fastcompany.com/articles/2001/04/emoticon_sidebar.html

FastCompany: He Seconds That Emotion
- Article about Scott Fahlman and emoticon use. Fahlman is the originator of the "emotional icon," or "emoticon".
- http://www.fastcompany.com/articles/2001/04/emoticon.html

Yahoo Groups: Emoticons
- Email list about how emoticons are useful.
- http://groups.yahoo.com/group/emoticon/

Guardian Unlimited: Emoticons
- Article by Sam Mohun. Published on the 20th anniversary of the smiley.
- http://www.guardian.co.uk/netnotes/article/0,6729,795227,00.html

The First Smiley :-)
- Smiley history, includes the orginal post introducing the smiley.
- http://research.microsoft.com/~mbj/Smiley/Smiley.html

The Smileys Server
- Live smiley gallery and collection.
- http://smileys.antville.org/

Online Smiley Faces and Emoticons
- A collection of smiley faces used in Internet messages including the specific ones used in Yahoo messenger chat application.
- http://www.anvari.org/cols/Online_Smiley_Faces_and_Emoticons/

eHumor Central
- Smilies and emoticons submitted by users. A few signature sized pictures too.
- http://www.ehumorcentral.com/Directory/Jokes/756.html

Star Trek Smileys
- Star Trek smileys and emoticons. A short introduction to smileys.
- http://www.kasper-online.de/en/docs/startrek/smileys.htm

Smiley's People
- Neal Stephenson's anti-smiley screed from The New Republic.
- http://www.spesh.com/lee/ns/smiley.html

Smiley Faces
- Written by PCLink's teacher GW.
- http://oz.uc.edu/~solkode/smileys.html

Helwig's Smiley Dictionary
- Built on December, 1994 from another smiley page.
- http://www.cg.tuwien.ac.at/~helwig/smileys.html

Emoticons Article
- Online culture's foremost contribution to either the evolution of language or the death of literacy, depending on your point of view.
- http://www.plastic.com/article.pl?sid=01/04/09/224239

ChatMag: Smileys
- A selection of smileys used in IRC and Internet chat rooms.
- http://www.chatmag.com/help/smiley.html

Robert's Smiley Guide
- Selection of text smileys. Click on the happy face to see the text smileys.
- http://www.cling.gu.se/~cl4rande/smiley/

Emoticons - Email Moods
- Compiled list of ASCII Email/chat code.
- http://www.chirpingbird.com/netpets/html/computer/emoticon.html

Smile! It's Contagious!
- List of emoticons on a page with some smiley graphics.
- http://www.paradiseawaits.com/Smile.html

Canonical Smiley List
- Compiled list of smileys and one line ASCII art.
- http://www.astro.umd.edu/~marshall/smileys.html

NetLingo: Smileys and Emoticons
- Online directory to look up words, acronyms, smileys, ASCII art, whatever you don't understand.
- http://www.netlingo.com/smiley.cfm

Smilies Unlimited
- Search the smiley faces database for the best face.
- http://www.smiliesunlimited.com/

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.
- http://www.muller-godschalk.com/emoticon.html

Computer Geek Emoticons
- Emoticons are ASCII (plain text) graphics. To read these, tilt your head to the left until the dots look like a pair of eyes. (BTW, the noses are optional.)
- http://www.pfccheatsheet.com/fnemot98.htm

Smileys and Emoticons
- Recommended emoticons and smileys for email communication.
- http://www.windweaver.com/emoticon.htm

EmoticonUniverse.com
- Expressing emotion in email correspondence. Directory and newsletter.
- http://emoticonuniverse.com/

Learn the Net: Smileys
- You can personalize your written messages by using smileys or emoticons. You create smileys by typing characters from your keyboard.
- http://www.learnthenet.com/english/html/25smile.htm

Common Emoticons and Acronyms
- Emoticons (emotional icons) are used to compensate for the inability to convey voice inflections, facial expressions, and bodily gestures in written communication
- http://www.pb.org/emoticon.html