Also known as Put on a Happy Face: Basic, rude and kissing smileys.
Bronwen and Claire's Really Huge Emoticon Collection: The original emoticon site. Common and not so common emoticons.
Canonical Smiley List: Compiled list of smileys and one line ASCII art.
ChatMag: Smileys: A selection of smileys used in IRC and Internet chat rooms.
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
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.)
eHumor Central: Smilies and emoticons submitted by users. A few signature sized pictures too.
Emoticons: Compiled list of ASCII Email/chat code.
Emoticons: Big archive of emoticons and smileys. Funny faces, sad faces and happy faces.
Emoticons: An extensive list. Emoticons are ASCII glyphs originally designed to show an emotional state in plain text messages.
Emoticons Article: 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: This website helps you to find out the meaning of several emoticons and smileys.
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.
EmoticonUniverse.com: Expressing emotion in email correspondence. Directory and newsletter.
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.
FastCompany: He Seconds That Emotion: Article about Scott Fahlman and emoticon use. Fahlman is the originator of the "emotional icon," or "emoticon".
Guardian Unlimited: Emoticons: Article by Sam Mohun. Published on the 20th anniversary of the smiley.
Helwig's Smiley Dictionary: Built on December, 1994 from another smiley page.
Internet Smileys: Basic, emotional, widely used and unusual smileys.
Learn the Net: Smileys: You can personalize your written messages by using smileys or emoticons. You create smileys by typing characters from your keyboard.
NetLingo: Smileys and Emoticons: Online directory to look up words, acronyms, smileys, ASCII art, whatever you don't understand.
Online Lingo: A secret foreign language of weird symbols. This list of emoticons and abbreviations will help you talk the talk of the online world.
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: Selection of text smileys. Click on the happy face to see the text smileys.
Sharpened: Emoticons: A list of emoticons used in email, online chat, and instant messaging.
Smile! It's Contagious!: List of emoticons on a page with some smiley graphics.
Smiley Dictionary: Emoticons: Vote for the top ten emoticons and check the database.
Smiley Faces: Written by PCLink's teacher GW.
Smiley Lore :-): Scott E. Fahlman writes about how he started smileys in text email.
Smiley's Collection: 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: Neal Stephenson's anti-smiley screed from The New Republic.
Smileys and Emoticons: Recommended emoticons and smileys for email communication.
Smilies: Smiley page in German and English.
Smilies Overview: Most of the common smilies explained.
Smilies Unlimited: Search the smiley faces database for the best face.
Star Trek Smileys: Star Trek smileys and emoticons. A short introduction to smileys.
The First Smiley :-): Smiley history, includes the orginal post introducing the smiley.
The Smiley Guide: Guide to using ASCII and graphical smileys. Also a history of smilies.
The Smileys Server: Live smiley gallery and collection.
The Ultimate Chatlist: Emoticon Search: Search for an emoticon or look at the whole list.
The Unofficial Smiley Dictionary: Collection of basic, well used and unique smileys.
User Friendly: Editorial on the use of emoticons.
Webopedia - emoticon: This page describes the term emoticon and lists other pages on the web where you can find additional information.
WYSIWYG: Joan's collection of emoticons and acronyms. These one line faces are truly the most primitive of ASCII art and have been around the Internet for years.
Yahoo Groups: Emoticons: Email list about how emoticons are useful.