Emoticon

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History

Emoticonos published in 1881 by the American magazine Puck.

In April 1857, the National Telegraphic Review and Operators Guide documented the use of the number 73 in Morse code to express "love and kisses" (later reduced to the more formal message "best wishes"). Dodge's Manual in 1908 documented the reintroduction of "love and kisses" as the number 88. Gajadhar and Green commented that both Morse code abbreviations are more succinct than modern abbreviations such as LOL. On March 30, 1881, the American satirical magazine Puck published four typographic emoticons. In 1912 Ambrose Bierce proposed "an improvement in punctuation; the point of laughter: it is written like this ___/! and features a smiling mouth. It is appended, with the full view, (or the exclamation point that Bierce would later use) to each humorous or ironic phrase". On September 19, 1982, American computer scientist Scott Fahlman proposed the use of the sequence :-) characters in the subject of a message to indicate that the comment contained a joke, in response to Neil Swartz's suggestion to use (*) with the same end.

Smilies have entered the science fiction fandom as far back as the 1940s, although there they may seem to have a gap in cultural continuity between communities.

Use

Smilies have been developed over the years, primarily to mimic facial expressions and emotions, to overcome the limitations of having to communicate only in text form, and because they serve as abbreviations. Books have been written on this subject, with endless lists of smileys.

On Internet forums, emoticons are often automatically replaced by the corresponding images. In some text editors (such as Microsoft Word), the "auto-correct" option recognizes basic emoticons such as :) and :(, changing them to the corresponding pictogram.

Smartphones often support different types of emoticons in SMS messages thanks to the Unicode format.

Western style

If you turn right the emoticone:-) you get a face.

To recognize smileys more easily, tilt your head to the left or right, depending on whether the top of the smiley is on the left or right (although it is usually on the left, in Western writing).

Variants

There are limitless possibilities, given the ability of people to create and interpret drawings as faces.

Smilies are usually rotated to the left. Sometimes they are rotated to the right to create "left-handed" emoticons, for example (: . These left-handed smileys create confusion, since some regular netizens tend to omit the ":" which represents the eyes [leaving ( instead of :)], so what one wrote as a smile could be interpreted as a sad face. In general, those who communicate a lot using emoticons subconsciously think "closing bracket = happy, opening bracket = sad".

More as a joke than anything else — but also a political statement — "frownies" and the symbol:-(were registered by the Despair company under the United States Registered Trademark Serial 75502288 and Registration Number 2347676.

In the first half of the 2010s, the so-called "emotivídeos", "video emoticons" or "emoticlips" (This last term was used to refer to a small series of emotional videos promoted by the MTV television network in the United States). They consist of small audiovisual pieces that are sent by mobile phone in chats or messaging conversations to express the state of mind of each one. With current video compression codecs, such as H.264, these emoticons become very manageable, take up very little space, and take no time to load.

XD

XD expresses "out loud laugh". When turned 90º to the right, it resembles the representation of a face with its mouth wide open and its eyes clenched tightly as a symptom of a loud laugh. Currently, this emoticon is written in various ways, these being "XD", "xD", "Xd", "xd" and "xq". The emoticon, used as a word, constitutes an error and is not admitted to the Royal Spanish Academy. Its first appearance was in 1952 as a symbol of the Army Poster, given to multiple uses, the symbol and/or emoticon, it was made known in many Latin American countries.

It can also be confused with other words with different meanings such as XD memory format.

Ironically, many people often confuse this symbol with "by God". The irony comes from the fact that on many occasions it looks good, which is why doubts arise. However, it can be interpreted like this taking into account the abbreviation language that is used so much on the internet (x = by; D = God).

Example: "You know nothing, see if you learn something XD."

Xd

Reference is made to be concentrated by taking out the language when writing xd in lowercases.

In another aspect, a large number of Internet users type "xd" inserted in each sentence, or simply to end sentences replacing a period followed. Its use ends up being a complement, in most cases, being used almost out of habit, usually to express some discomfort, sarcasm, dissolution, effort or disagreement with a situation.

"Will you come and see me at my house? xd".
"I can't, they didn't leave me xd".
"Oh, we're not going xd".
"You fell into the puddle xd".

Then there are also the more exaggerated forms of laughter, where more letters D are added to the smiley. Remaining: XDDD for example, or if the laughter is exaggerated a lot: XDDDDD and it wouldn't be something frowned upon.

East Asian Style

In East Asia originated the so-called "Japanese smileys" Also known as kaomoji or kaoani, which differ from Western ones mainly in that they can be understood without having to turn your head. They are usually simpler than the western ones, since, in general, only the eyes and the mouth are represented, as for example: '-' where the apostrophes represent the eyes and the horizontal bar the mouth. Other variants are: 'o', '~', '_'-, º-º,.o. y.u.

Graphic emoticons

A smiley, derived from emoticone:)

In 1997, the CEO of the Smiley company Nicolas Loufrani realized that ascii emoticons were being used more and more in mobile technology and began experimenting with animated smiley faces, so that each of the ascii emoticons previously existing ones, which consisted only of punctuation marks, had their corresponding colorful icon and thus improve them for a more interactive use in the digital world. Thereafter, Loufrani began compiling an online emoticon dictionary made up of several categories: classics, humorous expressions, flags, special occasions, fun, sports, weather, animals, food, countries, professions, planets, signs of the zodiac and babies These designs were first registered in 1997 with the United States Copyright Office and later, in 1998, they would be published as.gif files on the Internet, thus becoming the first graphic emoticons used in technology.

In the year 2000, the Directory of Emoticons created by Loufrani was published on the Internet so that users could download them through smileydictionary.com, a page that compiled more than 1000 Smiley graphic emoticons and their ascii versions. Later, in 2002, this same directory was published in a book by Marabout entitled "DicoSmileys."

In 2001, the Smiley Company began licensing the rights to Loufrani's graphic emoticons to various telecommunications companies, including Nokia, Motorola, Samsung, SFR (Vodaphone), and Sky Telemedia, so that users could download them on their mobile phones.

Attempt to extend this system of signs

At the beginning of the 21st century, Internet Slang emerged, an attempt to expand this system of signs. It differs from emoticons in that it is not ideographic, but is made up of abbreviations, including some that already existed before the appearance of the Internet, such as +/- (plus or minus), others, on the other hand, arose on the Internet, like LOL (laugh out loud). Its use is more and more frequent in chats because many Internet users find it practical. Another area that presents the same signs is the short message service, used to communicate via mobile phones.

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