Bruno Martelli - Igloo

Smiley - emoticon tool .. click to launch ...

Instructions:
Move mouse over titles to view smileys.
Click on title to copy a smiley in text format, then paste into your email or word processing package.
Select genres by clicking on titles in UPPER CASE at bottom of screen.

Notes:
'Emoticons' or 'Smileys' are ASCII icons which have developed into a rich language to convey emotions, characters and humour within plain text documents. 'Smileys' are one of the earliest features of email and the internet and this project seeks to document and present a few outstand examples to encourage people in their use. Research on the internet suggests smileys were invented by Scott Fahlman around 1980 on a bulletin board system. Most people tend to go for the easily reproducible ones such as ;-) not many are aware of the sophisticated and subtle Japanese 'sideways' smileys for example. The project features 5 sets culled from literally zillions Bruno has collected and collates them by rough 'genres'. Users can quickly navigate through them and view them in a rotated text field instead of having to twist their head. Clicking on the tile copies the 'smiley' allowing users to past them into their text documents.
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Igloo website: http://www.igloo.org.uk