After 40 years of delivering the tragic news of a PC crash to Windows users, Microsoft's infamous "blue screen of death" will be going away. But not to worry -- a black screen of death will be ...

The first emoticon — the text smiley — sprang into existence 40 years ago on Sept. 19, ... Bulletin board posters quickly began adding frowny faces: :-( to more serious or negative posts, ...

While the initial text-based emoticons, such as the :-) smiley and :-( frowny faces, were intended as joke markers to provide tonal context to online posts, they were unable to keep up with the ...

The iconic smiley face image, now also an online emoji, was invented by Harvey Ball in 1963 “when he was commissioned to create a graphic to raise morale among the employees of an insurance ...

The first emoticon — the text smiley — sprang into existence 40 years ago on Sept. 19, ... Bulletin board posters quickly began adding frowny faces: :-( to more serious or negative posts, ...