alt.culture: emoticons - Online culture's foremost contribution to either the evolution of language or the death of literacy, depending on your point of view.
Canonical Smiley List
Canonical Smiley List
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
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.)
E-mail IQ - A collection of email tips including emoticons.
Editorial on the Use of Emoticons - User Friendly
EFF's (Extended) Guide to the Internet - Smiley Dictionary
emoticon - PC Webopaedia Definition and Links - This page describes the term 'emoticon' and lists other pages on the Web where you can find additional information.
Emoticons - An emoticon (also known as a "smiley") is a symbol composed of a few text characters, and used as a kind of emotional shorthand to add meaning to a message.
Emoticons from Dave Barry in Cyberspace - Using Internet "Shorthand"
Emoticons or Smileys - An Emoticon (or Smiley) is a sequence of ordinary characters you can find on your computer keyboard. Emoticons are used in e-mail and other forms of communication using computers.
EmoticonUniverse.com - Expressing Emotion in Email Correspondence.
Epic list of smileys.
Guide to Emoticons
Happy Face Dictionary - Emoticon collection
Helwig's Smiley Dictionary
Henk's Smileys - This page explains the different kinds of smileys that are used on the net.
I-Net Guide: Composing Net-worthy E-mail: Emotions
Ike.M Development : Easy Smileys Homepage - Easy Smileys is a freeware tool that easily insert smileys and acronyms into email messages.
Internet Smilies.... ^_^ - A large list of common Internet Smileys and Emoticons. =)
Jumor Collection Smiles - This site is dedicated to ASCII text. This particular page is dedicated to Smilies.
Kathy's Smiley Faces
Learn the Net: Smileys - You can personalize your written messages by using smileys or emoticons. You create smileys by typing characters from your keyboard.
Online Lingo - list of emoticons and abbreviations.
Punc & Mark at Byteus.com - two smiley guys from a text-based 2D universe who travel via email and the TCP/IP protocol and have encounters with questionable characters along the way.
Robert's smiley guide
Smiley Face Rollar Coaster Ride to Hell - dedicated to bringing down the :-)
Smiley Faces
Smiley Site - Over 100 ways to smile. Stop by and learn a couple.
Smiley's Collection - This page was made to show all the types of smileys there are in the world (or close to it or not even close to it). There are a whole bunch of smileys listed below and a description of what it is. Here have a rose @-->--.
Smiley's people - Neal Stephenson's anti-smiley screed from The New Republic.
SmileyLand Link Exchange - Exhange Links to any Smiley Related sites. Send free Smile Mail. Some Ascii Smileys here, most are graphics.
Smileys - Smileys/short-texts are something that is commonly used in multiplayer games and chat programs. It is to express yourself or just to shorten down words.
Smileys (Emoticons) - How to add smileys (emoticons) to messages
Smileys -- Also known as Emoticons - Also known as "Put on a Happy Face!"
Smileys and Emoticons for Effective Communication - Recommended Emoticons and Smileys for Email Communication
Smileys Galore
Smileys! Server - your one stop shop for smileys!
Smileys, Emoticons and Acronyms - Joan's page of smileys and emoticons.
Smilie Dictionary
Smilies - Smiley page
Smilies Unlimited
Smilies, Smilies, Smilies
Star Trek Smileys
The Original Emoticon Site! :-) - Bronwen & Claire's Really Huge Emoticon Collection!
The Smileys! Server - .-), welcome again to the smileys! server.
The ThirdAge Online Signs & Symbols Glossary - If you use email, chat, or forums, you've probably come across what looks like a secret foreign language of weird symbols. This list of emoticons and abbreviations will help you talk the talk of the online world.
The Ultimate Chatlist: Emoticon Search - Search for an emoticon or look at the whole list.
The Unofficial Smiley Dictionary - The Unofficial Smiley Dictionary
Useful Internet Emoticons - from Dave Barry in Cyberspace. Add your own!