Post - Emoticons and Kaomojis
Posted on 2025-11-06
You might have heard of emoticons or kaomojis before. They are little pieces of text that look like faces.
One of the most famous is the smiley face, a colon followed by a closing parenthesis: :)
Kaomojis are like emoticons, but they generally use more complex characters to create more detailed and expressive faces.
For example, ٩(◕‿◕)۶ is a kaomoji that represents a happy face.
There are also more obscure ones, like the "hoik" kaomoji which looks like [ ̿˚͜˄˚̿ ].
Trivia Time!
Where did the first emoticon come from?
- A. A text message in 1982
- B. A man named Stephen Hawking
- C. Bill Gates
- D. A paper in 1985
The correct answer is A.
The first documented use of the :-) emoticon was in a message by computer scientist Scott Fahlman on September 19, 1982,
on a Carnegie Mellon University bulletin board. Learn more about the history of emoticons.