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

Bronwen and Claire's Really Huge Emoticon Collection
The original emoticon site. Common and not so common emoticons.
http://www.angelfire.com/hi/hahakiam/emoticon.html

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

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

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
http://www.pb.org/emoticon.html

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.)
http://www.pfccheatsheet.com/fnemot98.htm

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

Emoticons
Big archive of emoticons and smileys. Funny faces, sad faces and happy faces.
http://www.won.nl/dsp/usr/mvketel/Internet/emoticon.html

Emoticons
An extensive list. Emoticons are ASCII glyphs originally designed to show an emotional state in plain text messages.
http://www.cknow.com/ckinfo/acronyms/emoticons.htm

Emoticons
Compiled list of ASCII Email/chat code.
http://www.chirpingbird.com/netpets/html/computer/emoticon.html

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Internet Smileys
Basic, emotional, widely used and unusual smileys.
http://members.aol.com/bearpage/smileys.htm

Internet Smileys
Information about how the first smiley was born and a short smileys dictionary.
http://savethepig.com/smiley.html