The majority of emoji sent are positive or happy emotions Around six billion ... Abraham Lincoln might have been the first to use an emoticon Whilst explaining the difference between emoticons ...

Anyone can submit an idea for a new emoji. The Unicode Standard -- a universal character encoding standard -- is responsible ...

Prof Fahlman posted the ‘sideways smiley’ onto an online ... is a blend of ‘emotion’ and ‘icon’, made up of characters from a keyboard, whereas an emoji (a combination of the Japanese ...