Don't :- ( It's time to celebrate the emoticon's birthday by remembering the simpler days when all smileys were sideways. Eric Mack has been a CNET contributor since 2011. Eric and his family live 100 ...

To some, an email isn't complete without the inclusion of :-) or :-(. To others, the very idea of using "emoticons" - communicative graphics - makes the blood boil and represents all that has gone ...

Happy birthday to the emoticon -- the sideways smiley-face that changed the way we communicate emotion online.Consisting of three keyboard strokes (colon, hyphen, close parentheses), the popular ...