#emoticons — Public Fediverse posts

RE: https://oldbytes.space/@gloriouscow/117044736309312697

Please, if you have a nerdy soul and fancy a stupid side project that tries to write a #DOS executable with #emoji characters only, you *need* to read this thread now. 🤓👍🤯

I particularly like the insight on ⌛🤣

It seems that #doom written in emojis is just a matter of time... 😜

#emojis #emoticons #helloworld #programming

TIL: #Emoticons are Portuguese. 😉

Normalise #emoticons :awesome:

This one's a really niche joke and probably the kind of thing only I would find funny. If you want it explained to you, read on:

Bingo is a game in which a 'caller' generates random numbers, often by pulling lotto balls at random from a tumbling basket, and players try to match those numbers on pregenerated random sheets.

In Britain, there's a century-plus old tradition of particular numbers having catchphrases associated with them, some of which relate to the shapes of the numbers, e.g. "legs 11", "two little ducks, 22", "duck and a crutch, 27".

I found myself this morning wondering if there are #emoticons or #puns that can be made using Roman numerals that would lend themselves to use by a hypothetical ancient Roman bingo caller, like:

- legs two, based on II looking like a pair of legs and a nod to "legs eleven"
- growing up the wall, based on IV being phonetically similar to the word "ivy"
- seagull in flight, because sketched seagulls are sometimes compared to the shape of letter Vs
- long-nosed dead man for XIX, as if an emoticon with crosses for eyes and an "I" for a nose
- pornography for XXX, because XXX is sometimes used as a stand-in for marking something as pornographic
- use your tongue for LIX, because it could be pronounced like "licks"
- smiling in a blindfold for the emoticon CI, where the C looks like a smile and the I being a line where the eyes should be

They say that explaining a joke is like dissecting a frog. You may understand it better, but the frog doesn't survive.

Dagens #Rødtråd er visst for ungdommen.... #emoticons https://rodtraad.no

I do not know how it can be really useful but it has a lot of emoticons and combinations and they just con be copied wit a click.

https://emojidb.org/

#webtools #tools #webtool #emoticons #emoticon

#Emojis #Emoticons #Smileys # : )

I'm not very fond of emojis because they look so un-typographical. Break the flow of reading.

I really love emoticons, on the other hand, but —
Because standard smileys constantly get turned into emojies 🙂, and because nose-smileys are weird and old-fashioned :-), and non-nose smileys look like someone's head's been compressed in a really unhealthy way :), however leaving a space in the middle can result in a line break inside the smiley, my best option is now:
• End the sentence with normal punctuation,
• Unicode character 2007 (large space),
• Colon,
• Unicode character 2008 (small space),
• Closing bracket.

"2007-:-2008-)" is easy enough to remember. Looks like this: : )

If you're honest with yourself, what style of faces do you use in online communication?

Not the vibe you'd like to give off, but what you really do in practice. And let's limit it to personal communication, not your worksona.

#emoji #emoticons #smileys #kaomoji #linguistics

sometimes i replace semicolons with the Greek question mark to prevent the soulless machines converting my handmade emoticons into emojis ;-)

#unicode #emoticons

The history of the smiley face emoticon.

"On September 19, 1982, Carnegie Mellon University computer science research assistant professor Scott Fahlman posted a message to the university’s bulletin board software that would later come to shape how people communicate online. His proposal: use : - ) and : - ( as markers to distinguish jokes from serious comments."

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/11/in-1982-a-physics-joke-gone-wrong-sparked-the-invention-of-the-emoticon/

#Computers #Emoticons #Symbols #ComputerHistory #RetroComputing #Messaging

Are ASCII emoticons zxx-Zsye, zxx-Zsym or something else? 🤔

#lang_en #questions #emoticons

Am 19.02.1982 schlug Scott Fahlmann in einem lokalen Diskussionsforum vor, :-) und :-( zu nutzen, um humorvolle und ernsthafte Beiträge in Posts besser unterscheiden zu können. Heute sind #Emoticons nicht mehr wegzudenken

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_E._Fahlman

"The internet emoticon truly traces its lineage directly to Fahlman, who says he came up with the idea after reading "lengthy diatribes" from people on the message board who failed to get the joke or the sarcasm in a particular post -- which is probably what "given current trends" refers to in his own, now-famous missive."

https://www.wired.com/2011/09/0919fahlman-proposes-emoticons/

Archived link: https://web.archive.org/web/20250223224043/https://www.wired.com/2011/09/0919fahlman-proposes-emoticons/

#OnThisDay #OTD #internet #history #InternetHistory #emoticons #emoji #smiley

how many #emoticons are you guys using normally? I was just thinking that despite the abundance of them I only ever use the same 3 or 4.

»4000 Jahre später und wir sind wieder da, wo wir waren«

#Hieroglyphen #Smileys #Emoticons #Emojis

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useful information ...

#Cthulu #Emoticons

Or, is using #ASCII art and Asian #emoticons considered #spam by @moderation.bsky.app @safety.bsky.app ? Why? ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯ (⁠┛⁠◉⁠Д⁠◉⁠)⁠┛⁠彡⁠┻⁠━⁠┻

I didn't think I'd turn into a poster, but according to #Mastodon this is my 61ˢᵗ post!
🎉🎉🎉

Celebrate this one with me by commenting your silliest emojis!
\( ﾟヮﾟ)/
:bongoCat: :blobaww: :AAAAAA: :catjam:

#emoji #emoticons #emotes #fediverse #introduction #celebration

I didn't think I'd turn into a poster, but according to #Mastodon this is my 61ˢᵗ post!
🎉🎉🎉

Celebrate this one with me by commenting your silliest emojis! \( ﾟヮﾟ)/
:bongoCat: :blobaww: :AAAAAA: :catjam:

#emoji #emoticons #emotes #fediverse #introduction #celebration

I didn't think I'd turn into a poster, but according to #Mastodon this is my 61ˢᵗ post! 🎉🎉🎉

Celebrate this one with me by commenting your silliest emojis \( ﾟヮﾟ)/
:bongoCat: :owi: :toot: :catjam:

#fediverse #celebration #introduction #emojis #emotes #emoticons

Am 19.02.1982 schlug Scott Fahlmann in einem lokalen Diskussionsforum vor, :-) und :-( zu nutzen, um humorvolle und ernsthafte Beiträge in Posts besser unterscheiden zu können. Heute sind #Emoticons nicht mehr wegzudenken

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_E._Fahlman

Dear #Unicode consortium, I'd like to request two more entries in the #Emoticons block:

* U+DEAD00 PARTIALLY_SHAVED_YAK
* U+DEAD01 COLORFULLY_PAINTED_BIKESHED

I very much need these for professional reasons. Thank you.

19-Sep-82 11:44 Scott E Fahlman :-)
From: Scott E Fahlman

I propose that the following character sequence for joke markers:

:-)

Read it sideways. Actually, it is probably more economical to mark things that are NOT jokes, given current trends. For this, use:

:-(

https://www.wired.com/2011/09/0919fahlman-proposes-emoticons/

#internet #history #OnThisDay #emoticons #emoji #smiley

In a world where almost all public-facing text-entry interfaces have a dropdown menu for inserting emoji icons, do you still catch yourself making wink and smiley faces with punctuation marks?

Yes, I am ASCII-wink years old. ;-)

#ASCII #Emoji #Emoticons #Wink #SmileyFace