Emoticons have been around a lot longer than one might think ... a set of 3D smileys to convey a range of emotions, thus inching into the territory that we now call emoji. Loufrani's set was ...

For example, joyful is only one happy emotion ... from the smiley face to emojis took a detour in the 1980s with emoticons, melding “emotion” and “icon” (a word similar to “emoji” conceptually but not ...

Whether it's a friendly smiley ... be dope,' one user wrote, while another added: 'gonna need that bigfoot'. And one joked: 'oh the distorted face is gonna be my most used emoji fo sho.' ...