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Also known as Put on a Happy Face - http://www.mit.edu:8001/people/cordelia/smileys.html
Basic, rude and kissing smileys.

Canonical Smiley List - http://www.astro.umd.edu/~marshall/smileys.html
Compiled list of smileys and one line ASCII art.

ChatMag: Smileys - http://www.chatmag.com/help/smiley.html
A selection of smileys used in IRC and Internet chat rooms.

Common Emoticons and Acronyms - http://www.pb.org/emoticon.html
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 - http://www.pfccheatsheet.com/fnemot98.htm
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.)

eHumor Central - http://www.ehumorcentral.com/Directory/Jokes/756.html
Smilies and emoticons submitted by users. A few signature sized pictures too.

Emoticons Article - http://www.plastic.com/article.pl?sid=01/04/09/224239
Online culture's foremost contribution to either the evolution of language or the death of literacy, depending on your point of view.

Emoticons Online.com - http://www.emoticons-online.com
This website helps you to find out the meaning of several emoticons and smileys.

Emoticons or Smileys - http://www.muller-godschalk.com/emoticon.html
A sequence of ordinary characters you can find on your computer keyboard. Emoticons are used in e-mail and other forms of communication.

EmoticonUniverse.com - http://emoticonuniverse.com/
Expressing emotion in email correspondence. Directory and newsletter.

Fast Company: Wipe That Smile off Your Face - http://www.fastcompany.com/articles/2001/04/emoticon_sidebar.html
Linguist, Naomi Baron, predicts that abbreviations will replace emoticons and that electronic communication will grow increasingly cryptic as groups develop their own secret codes.

FastCompany: He Seconds That Emotion - http://www.fastcompany.com/articles/2001/04/emoticon.html
Article about Scott Fahlman and emoticon use. Fahlman is the originator of the "emotional icon," or "emoticon".

Gmail: Help Center - Emoticons - http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=34056
List of emoticons available to use with Gmail.

Guardian Unlimited: Emoticons - http://www.guardian.co.uk/netnotes/article/0,6729,795227,00.html
Article by Sam Mohun. Published on the 20th anniversary of the smiley.

Helwig's Smiley Dictionary - http://www.cg.tuwien.ac.at/~helwig/smileys.html
Built on December, 1994 from another smiley page.

Learn the Net: Smileys - http://www.learnthenet.com/english/html/25smile.htm
You can personalize your written messages by using smileys or emoticons. You create smileys by typing characters from your keyboard.

NetLingo: Smileys and Emoticons - http://www.netlingo.com/smiley.cfm
Online directory to look up words, acronyms, smileys, ASCII art, whatever you don't understand.

Online Smiley Faces and Emoticons - http://www.anvari.org/cols/Online_Smiley_Faces_and_Emoticons/
A collection of smiley faces used in Internet messages including the specific ones used in Yahoo messenger chat application.

Robert's Smiley Guide - http://www.cling.gu.se/~cl4rande/smiley/
Selection of text smileys. Click on the happy face to see the text smileys.

Sharpened: Emoticons - http://www.sharpened.net/glossary/emoticons.php
A list of emoticons used in email, online chat, and instant messaging.

Smile! It's Contagious! - http://www.paradiseawaits.com/Smile.html
List of emoticons on a page with some smiley graphics.

Smiley Dictionary: Emoticons - http://www.smileyworld.com/emoticons/
Vote for the top ten emoticons and check the database.

Smiley Lore :-) - http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~sef/sefSmiley.htm
Scott E. Fahlman writes about how he started smileys in text email.

Smiley's Collection - http://www.angelfire.com/ny/Smileyscolection/
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.

Smiley's People - http://www.spesh.com/lee/ns/smiley.html
Neal Stephenson's anti-smiley screed from The New Republic.

Smileys and Emoticons - http://www.windweaver.com/emoticon.htm
Recommended emoticons and smileys for email communication.

Smilies Unlimited - http://www.smiliesunlimited.com/
Search the smiley faces database for the best face.

Star Trek Smileys - http://www.kasper-online.de/en/docs/startrek/smileys.htm
Star Trek smileys and emoticons. A short introduction to smileys.

The First Smiley :-) - http://research.microsoft.com/~mbj/Smiley/Smiley.html
Smiley history, includes the original 1982 post introducing the smiley.

The Smileys Server - http://smileys.antville.org/
Live smiley gallery and collection.

User Friendly - http://www.mit.edu:8001/people/cordelia/smileys_edit.html
Editorial on the use of emoticons.

Webopedia - emoticon - http://webopedia.com/TERM/e/emoticon.html
This page describes the term emoticon and lists other pages on the web where you can find additional information.

What are Emoticons? - http://www.cknow.com/faqs/What/Emoticons.html
An extensive list. Emoticons are ASCII glyphs originally designed to show an emotional state in plain text messages.

Yahoo Groups: Emoticons - http://groups.yahoo.com/group/emoticon/
Email list about how emoticons are useful.

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