Smilies, those cute little yellow circles that fill up every web page. A list of what they are when those faces aren’t there.
With many abbreviations on the ‘net and only text, there’s got to be some way to show emotion, this is where smilies come in:
Different Styles: Depending on character placement in some places *cough* Runescape, most of the time : is interchangeable with =, giving =), =( and so on.
Tue, Oct 30, 2007, by Jake Madden
Web Talk