The smiley has gone through many incarnations over the years, but it consistently retains the same features. ("Kolobok" type)

The smiley, smiley face, or happy face, is a stylized representation of a smiling human face, commonly represented as a yellow button with two dots representing eyes and a half circle representing the mouth. Kolobok (from колобок — circle side is the main character of an East Slavic national Fairy tale with the same name represented as a small Yellow “Smiley” is also sometimes used as a generic term for any emoticon. An emoticon is a symbol or combination of symbols used to convey emotional content in written or message form

Origin

The very earliest known examples of the graphic are attributed to Harvey Ball, a commercial artist in Worcester, Massachusetts. Smileysvg|right|100px|Smiley]] Harvey Ross Ball ( 10 July 1921 – 12 April 2001) is the earliest known designer of the Smiley. Worcester (ˈwʊstɚ is a City in the state of Massachusetts in the United States of America. He devised the face in 1963 for an insurance firm that wanted an internal campaign to improve employee morale. ^[1][2] Ball never attempted to use, promote or trademark the image; it fell into the public domain in the United States before that could be accomplished. A trademark or trade mark, represented by the symbols ™ and ®, or mark is a distinctive sign or indicator used by an individual The public domain is a range of abstract materials &ndash commonly referred to as Intellectual property &ndash which are not owned or controlled by anyone ^[3] As a result, Ball never made any profit for the iconic image beyond his initial $45 fee.

David Stern of David Stern Inc. , a Seattle-based advertising agency also claimed to have invented the smiley. An advertising agency or ad agency is a service Business dedicated to creating planning and handling Advertising (and sometimes other forms of promotion Stern reportedly developed his version in 1967 as part of an ad campaign for Washington Mutual, but says he did not think to trademark it. Washington Mutual Inc (abbreviated to WaMu) ( is a savings bank holding company and the former owner of Washington Mutual Savings Bank, which was the ^[4]

Popularization

The graphic was popularized in the early 1970s by Bernard Spain, who seized upon it in a campaign to sell novelty items. The two produced buttons as well as coffee mugs, t-shirts, bumper stickers and many other items emblazoned with the symbol and the phrase "Have a happy day" (devised by Gyula Bogar). CoFFEE is an Open source Software for computer supported collaborative learning (CSCL in a digital classroom A T-shirt (or tee shirt) is a Shirt which is pulled on over the head to cover most of a person's Torso. A bumper sticker is an adhesive Label or sticker with a message intended to be attached to the bumper of an Automobile and to be read by the occupants It can show many different emotions.

The smiley is largely associated in the UK with the acid house dance music culture that emerged during the second summer of love in the late 1980s, often used as engraved logos on ecstasy tablets at the time. Acid house is a sub-genre of House music that emphasizes a repetitive hypnotic and trance -like style with samples or spoken lines usually used rather than sung lyrics This article is about music for dancing in general You may also be looking for Electronic dance music. The Second Summer of Love is a name given to the period in 1988-91 in Britain, during the rise of Acid House music and the euphoric explosion of unlicensed MDMA ( 34-methylenedioxy- N -methylamphetamine) most commonly known today by the street name Ecstasy (often abbreviated E, X, ^[5] The association was cemented when the band Bomb The Bass used an extracted, blood-splattered smiley from the comic novel Watchmen by Alan Moore, on the centre of their Beat Dis hit single. Bomb the Bass (formed 1987 in London, England) is the umbrella title for the output of British musician and DJ, Tim Simenon. Watchmen is a twelve-issue Comic book Limited series written by Alan Moore, and illustrated by Dave Gibbons and John Higgins Alan Moore (born November 18 1953 in Northampton) is an English Writer most famous for his influential work in Comics, including the acclaimed

Licensing and legal issues

Smiley has been a registered trademark since 1971 when French businessman Franklin Loufrani created "Smiley World" to sell and license the smiley face image in the United Kingdom and Europe. The Smiley name and logo is registered and used in over 100 countries for 25 classes of goods and services.

In 2006 Wal-Mart, which prominently featured a smiley in its "Rolling Back Prices" campaign, sought to trademark the smiley face in the United States, coming into legal conflict with Loufrani and SmileyWorld over the matter. Wal-Mart Stores Inc (or Walmart as written in its new logo is an American public corporation that runs a chain of large discount department stores ^[6][7] In 2006 Wal-mart began to phase out the smiley face on its vests^[8] and its website as part of a "no smiling" campaign. ^[9] During a trademark infringement case against an online parodist, Wal-Mart again tried to claim it held the trademark rights to the yellow smiley face. The judge disagreed and in March 2008 Wal-Mart lost the case with the judge saying that Wal-Mart had no rights to the smiley face. 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common ^[10]

In 1999, Ball formed World Smile Corporation and began licensing the smiley face to fund his charitable causes. Profits are distributed to charities through the Harvey Ball World Smile Foundation, which also sponsors the annual World Smile Day Ball started in 1999 to encourage "acts of kindness". ^[11]

More than 1,200 smiley emoticons are registered with the Washington Library of Congress and protected by the Universal Copyright Convention. The Universal Copyright Convention (or UCC) adopted at Geneva in 1952, is one of the two principal international conventions protecting Copyright

Internet use

The smiley has become an essential of Internet culture, with animated GIF and other image representations, as well as the ubiquitous text-based emoticon, " :-) ". The Internet is a global system of interconnected Computer networks An emoticon is a symbol or combination of symbols used to convey emotional content in written or message form The smiley has been used for the printable version of characters 1 and 2 (one "black", the other "white") on the default font on the IBM PC and successor compatible machines. IBM PC or MS-DOS Code page 437, often abbreviated CP437 and also known as DOS-US, OEM-US or sometimes misleadingly referred In modern times, all versions of Microsoft Windows since Windows 95^[12] were able to display the smiley since it is part of the Windows Glyph List (though not all fonts include the character and not all programs were Unicode-compliant). Microsoft Windows is a series of Software Operating systems and Graphical user interfaces produced by Microsoft. Windows 95 is a consumer-oriented Graphical user interface -based Operating system. Windows Glyph List 4, or more commonly WGL4 for short also known as the Pan-European character set, is a character repertoire on recent Microsoft's operating ^[13]

The Wingdings font also includes a smiley: Smileys and emoticons are often used on Internet forums. In Computing, Unicode is an Industry standard allowing Computers to consistently represent and manipulate text expressed in most of the world's Wingdings are a series of fonts which render letters as a variety of symbols An emoticon is a symbol or combination of symbols used to convey emotional content in written or message form An, or message board, is a Bulletin board system in the form of a discussion site

Typographical smileys

The satrirical U. S. magazine Puck presented these typographical emoticons on March 30, 1881. Puck was America's first successful Humor magazine known for its sharp humor and colorful Cartoon Caricatures satirizing the political An emoticon is a symbol or combination of symbols used to convey emotional content in written or message form

Main article: Emoticon

Many typographical representations of smiley faces have been developed over the years. An emoticon is a symbol or combination of symbols used to convey emotional content in written or message form Some feature non-smiling expressions or other elaborations. They come in two main varieties, those meant to be viewed sideways, and those meant to be seen upright.

The two original text smileys, :-) to indicate a joke and :-( to mark things that are not a joke were invented on September 19, 1982 by Scott E. Fahlman, a research professor at Carnegie Mellon University's Department of Computer Science. Events 335 - Dalmatius is raised to the rank of Caesar by his uncle Constantine I. Scott Elliot Fahlman (born March 21, 1948, in Medina Ohio, US Carnegie Mellon University (also known as CMU) is a private Research University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United His original post at the CMU CS general board, where he suggested the use of the smileys, was retrieved on September 10, 2002 by Jeff Baird from an October 1982 backup tape of the spice vax (cmu-750x) as proof to support the claim. Events 506 - The Bishops of Visigothic Gaul meet in the Council of Agde. ^[14]

More recently, small, in-line graphical images of smileys and other faces have become popular, especially on forums:

The reverse, or left-handed, smileys (-: have also gained popularity for being a way to avoid having text smileys converted to graphical representations in certain settings such as instant messaging programs. An, or message board, is a Bulletin board system in the form of a discussion site

Unusual appearances of smileys

In May 2002, Luke Helder, a midwestern pipe-bomber, tried to replicate a smiley face in his pattern of pipe bombs. Lucas John Helder (born May 5 1981 was a University of Wisconsin-Stout college student and Pine Island Minnesota resident who earned notoriety as the Midwest A pipe bomb is an Improvised explosive device, a tightly sealed section of pipe filled with an Explosive material. His first 16 bombs formed circles, the first in Nebraska and the second on the border between Illinois and Iowa. Nebraska ( is a state located on the Great Plains of the Midwestern United States and The State of Illinois ( roughly ill-i-NOY is a state of the United States of America, the 21st to be admitted to the Union. The State of Iowa ( is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States of America. Those bombs completed the eyes. Two other bombs in Texas and Colorado were apparently the beginnings of the smile. Texas ( is a state geographically located in the South Central United States and is also known as the Lone Star State. The State of Colorado ( or chiefly by nonresidents) is a state located in the Rocky Mountain region of the United States of America. However, he was captured before being able to complete it.

A certain species of Hawaiian spider, Theridion grallator, a. The State of Hawaii ( or həˈwaɪʔiː Hawaiian: Mokuāina o Hawaii) is a state in the United States located on an Archipelago in the Theridion grallator, also known as the "happyface" Spider, is a member of the Theridiidae family k. a. the Happyface Spider, has some morphs which display an uncanny smiley-face pattern on its yellow body.

The smallest incarnation of the smiley was created by Paul Rothemund of the California Institute of Technology. Paul WK Rothemund is a senior research fellow at the Computation and Neural Systems department at Caltech. The California Institute of Technology (commonly referred to as Caltech) is a private, Coeducational research university located in Pasadena He used strands of DNA in a method he calls DNA origami to construct a complex two-dimensional nanostructure in the shape of a smiley face. Deoxyribonucleic acid ( DNA) is a Nucleic acid that contains the genetic instructions used in the development and functioning of all known Nanoscale folding of DNA, also known as DNA origami, is a process which allows researchers to create arbitrary two-dimensional shapes at the Nanoscale using DNA A nanostructure is an object of intermediate size between Molecular and Microscopic ( micrometer -sized Structures In describing nanostructures

The 230km (143 mile) wide Martian crater Galle (on the Argyre Planitia) very strongly resembles a smiley face. As an adjective the term "martian" is used to describe anything pertaining to the Planet Mars. Galle is a crater on Mars. It is located on the eastern rim of the huge Impact basin Argyre Planitia. Argyre Planitia is a plain located in the Argyre Impact basin in the southern highlands of Mars.

A smiley face can be seen within a properly placed dental implant in a dental radiograph. A dental implant is an Artificial tooth root replacement and is used in prosthetic Dentistry to support restorations that resemble a tooth or group of teeth For medical radiography see Radiology Radiography is the use of X-rays to view unseen or hard-to-image objects

In the computer game, Unreal Tournament, there is a smiley face on the front of the flak cannon's arcing contact grenade (secondary fire). Unreal Tournament is a First-person shooter Video game co-developed by Epic Games and Digital Extremes. This is obviously very hard to sight because of the grenade's high velocity, but a time pausing cheat can be used to stop the grenade in mid-air enabling the player to observe the smiley face on its front. In Physics, velocity is defined as the rate of change of Position.

In the city of Plymouth (UK) there are numerous "feel-good messages" written around the city centre. The origin of these and the culprit are not known but everyone of them is tagged with a smiley face or a =)as it would appear.

A possible gang of serial killers is dubbed the "Smiley Face Gang" due to a trademark smiley face found near murder scenes along the Mississippi River boardering Wisconsin and Minnesota. ^[15]

Smileys in popular culture

A smiley face adorns the north side of the water tower in Hammond, Illinois. A water tower, watershed, or elevated water tower is a large elevated water storage container Hammond is a village in Piatt County, Illinois, United States. The State of Illinois ( roughly ill-i-NOY is a state of the United States of America, the 21st to be admitted to the Union.

A smiley can also be used to refer to an upper lip frenulum piercing. This is essentially the piercing of the webbing in one's mouth between the center of the upper lip and the center of the upper gums. The piercing gets its name because it is only visible when the individual with the piercing smiles.

Advertising

• In 1986, Eat'n Park first introduced the "Smiley" cookie. Eat'n Park is a Restaurant chain with locations in Western Pennsylvania, eastern Ohio and northern West Virginia.
• The Sonar Music Festival is actively using the "Smiley" logo in its campaigns. Sónar is a annual three-day Music Festival held in Barcelona Spain.

Art and literature

• The smiley face is the logo of the Dryco Corporation in Jack Womack's "Ambient" books: Elvissey, Ambient, Heathern, Terraplane, and Random Acts of Senseless Violence.
• The yellow smiley is a recurring theme in the comic book series Watchmen (Alan Moore & David Gibbons, 1986). Watchmen is a twelve-issue Comic book Limited series written by Alan Moore, and illustrated by Dave Gibbons and John Higgins The smiley is used as an insignia by the character named "The Comedian. " An image of a smiley face with a streak of red (originally blood) across it both begins and closes the series, and appears on the cover of the graphic novel reprint. Blood is a specialized Bodily fluid that delivers necessary substances to the body's cells ��such as nutrients and oxygen—and transports Waste products
• In Wolverine, the minor shape-changing villain Dirt Nap is recognizable by his smiley face symbol, which is retained between forms.
• In the comic book series Transmetropolitan the smiley with three eyes logo features as the symbol of the Transient Movement, a group of humans in the process of morphing their DNA with that of aliens, and was later used as a symbol of the series itself. Transmetropolitan is a Postcyberpunk Comic book series written by Warren Ellis with art by Darick Robertson and published by The 2001 movie Evolution used a similar smiley in promotions a number of years later under license from Smileyworld Ltd. Evolution is a 2001 comedy sci-fi movie directed by Ivan Reitman.
• In the comic book series The Tick, the Chainsaw Vigilante wears a yellow smiley face button on the lapel of his leather jacket, oriented upside-down in an apparent expression of irony. The Tick is a Fictional character, an absurdist spoof of Comic book Superheroes Created by cartoonist Ben Edlund, the character The Chainsaw Vigilante is a Fictional character and foe of Ben Edlund 's The Tick. His mask is also a significantly stylized version of the smiley and the classical comedy/tragedy masks.
• The Chaos! Comics character Evil Ernie has a sidekick called Smiley the Psychotic Button, a sentient smiley button with a sinister face and backed by crossbones. Evil Ernie is a fictional character an Undead, psychotic killer with his own series published by Chaos! Comics and Devil's Due Publishing. A skull and crossbones is a Symbol consisting of a human Skull and two bones crossed together under the skull
• In the 2003 comic Solus a fragment of Danik is named Polla and looks like a talking smiley. Solus was an American comic book series written by Barbara Kesel and illustrated by George Pérez. Danik is a character in the Crossgen universe Found in the books The First, Crux, Sigil, Solus, and Negation War
• The popular graffiti artist Banksy has used smileys in several of his works, including one that shows a man in full riot-police gear with a smiley for a head. Banksy is a well-known pseudo-anonymous British Graffiti Artist.
• The Banksy riot-police version of the smiley was used in the graphic novel The Smoke. A
• Stephen King's recurring villain Randall Flagg often wears a smiley badge. Randall Flagg is a Fictional character created by Stephen King.
• Gahan Wilson has drawn several cartoons with smiley faces: among them, one shows a group of cops wearing smiley-face masks in an interrogation to break down the resistance of the person being interrogated. Gahan Wilson (born February 18 1930 in Evanston Illinois) is an author Cartoonist, and illustrator in the United States.
• The DC comic four-issue mini-series Prez featured a shady political boss named Mr. A boss, in politics, is a person who wields De facto power over a particular political region or Constituency. Smiley. This short series was referenced in Issue #53 of Neil Gaiman's seminal comic book series The Sandman. Neil Richard Gaiman (ˈgeɪmən (born November 10, 1960) is an English author of Science fiction and Fantasy short stories and In the Sandman story, "Boss Smiley" controlled all of Prez Rickard's reality. Prez First Teen President was a four issue comic series by writer Joe Simon (the creator of Captain America) and artist Jerry Grandenetti This version also references and homages the previously mentioned depiction of the smiley in Alan Moore's comic series, Watchmen. Watchmen is a twelve-issue Comic book Limited series written by Alan Moore, and illustrated by Dave Gibbons and John Higgins
• In the webcomic Misfile, Rumisiel wears a T-shirt with a non-smiling smiley and the caption "Have a day"
• A frowning, menacing looking version of a smiley face, dubbed "Mr. Personality", is the logo for the webcomic Something Positive. Something Positive or S*P is a Webcomic by R K Milholland, which debuted on December 19, 2001.
• A picture of a smiley face with a Hitler-style mustache is on the cover of Jonah Goldberg's 2008 book Liberal Fascism. Hi and welcome to Wikipedia! Please understand that this article is frequently vandalized and vandalism is reverted immediately For the Swedish heavy metal band see Mustasch. A moustache (or mustache) is Facial hair grown on the upper Lip. Jonah Jacob Goldberg (born March 21, 1969) is an American syndicated columnist and author Liberal Fascism The Secret History of the American Left From Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning is a bestselling book by Jonah Goldberg The Neo-Nazi musical group, Prussian Blue are seen in a photograph wearing t-shirts with a similar image. Prussian Blue is a controversial white supremacist folk teen duo formed in early 2003 by Lynx Gaede and Lamb Gaede,
• Mr. Happy from the Mr. Men book series resembles as smiley face. Mr Men is a series of 45 (only 43 published in English Children's books by Roger Hargreaves started in 1971

Movies and Television

USS Reeves (CG-24) placed smiley face covers on its AN/SPG-55 missile fire control radars when visiting China in 1986. Reeves Operational History The 1960s Following an extended trial and shakedown period Reeves was homeported at Long Beach where The radar was designed to guide a Terrier missile so that it can shoot down an aircraft or missile. The Convair RIM-2 Terrier was a two-stage medium-range naval Surface-to-air missile (SAM and was among the earliest surface-to-air missiles to equip United

• The film Forrest Gump (Robert Zemeckis, 1994) comically featured the smiley being "invented" when the main character wipes his mud-covered face off with a yellow t-shirt, and says "Have a nice day", inspiring a struggling businessman with the makeshift design. Forrest Gump is a 1994 Comedy film based on the 1986 novel of the same name by Winston Groom and the name of the title character This scene is not in the original book.
• The film Fight Club (David Fincher, 1999) has a brief "smiley bombing" scene on the side of an office building. Fight Club is a 1999 American feature film adaptation of the 1996 novel of the same name by Chuck Palahniuk, adapted by A similar face previously appeared in the Fight Club novel. Fight Club is a 1996 novel by Chuck Palahniuk, chronicling the experiences of an anonymous Protagonist who is struggling with a growing discomfort
• In Timescape, an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation, Captain Jean-Luc Picard drew a smiley face in the cloud created by a warp core breach in progress that was frozen in time and laughed hysterically for a moment before becoming extremely panicked, all as a result of "temporal narcosis". " “Timescape” " is an episode from the sixth season of the Television series Star Trek The Next Generation.
• In the 1995 film Virtuosity a smiley is used to mark a restaurant where the virtual serial killer "Sid 6. For a person who is virtuous see Virtue. Virtuosity is a 1995 American Science fiction film directed 7" was hiding.
• In the 2001 film Evolution a three eyed smiley is used as a symbol for aliens. Evolution is a 2001 comedy sci-fi movie directed by Ivan Reitman.
• A smiley can be vaguely seen on the bloodstained medical gurney in the crash scene of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is a 1998 Film adaptation of Hunter S
• In Lost, one character landed on the island in a balloon with a smiley face on it. Lost is an Emmy and Golden Globe award-winning American serial drama television series.
• WWE wrestler Mick Foley's most common logo is a smiley with his trademark Mankind mask over it. World Wrestling Entertainment Inc ( WWE) is a publicly traded privately controlled integrated media (focusing in Television, Internet, Wrestling is the act of physical engagement between two people in which each wrestler strives to get an advantage over or control of the opponent Michael Francis "Mick" Foley Sr Early life Foley was born in Bloomington Indiana. Also in his Mankind persona his catchphrase was "Have a nice day!", used ironically as a sinister heel and more literally as a comic face.
• In the 2007 film Smiley Face. Smiley Face is a 2007 comedy Film. It is the ninth feature film directed by Gregg Araki and was written by Dylan
• In Blazing Saddles, when Hedley Lamar is enlisting his criminal army, the KKK members wear smiley faces and have a nice day on the back of their sheets.
• In The Howling, a 1981 tongue in cheek horror film, smiley face stickers were left by the werewolf, creating a sinister reaction to the banal greeting. The Howling is a 1981 Horror film directed by Joe Dante. Based on the novel of the same name by Gary Brandner, the
• In the Anime television series "Ghost in the Shell" a stylised smiley face is used by a villain called the "Laughing Man" to hide his identity.

Music

• Everclear's Songs from an American Movie, Vol. 1: Learning How to Smile has a print of an unhappy face (yellow background color, black eyes and mouth) on the CD, and Songs from an American Movie, Vol. 2: Good Time for a Bad Attitude has a print of a happy face (black background color, orange eyes and mouth) on the CD. Songs from an American Movie Vol 1 Learning How to Smile is an album by Everclear, released on July 11, 2000. Songs from an American Movie Vol 2 Good Time for a Bad Attitude is an album by Everclear, released on November 21, 2000.
• The band Blink-182 also used an altered smiley face with arrows (similar to Nirvana's) for the cover of their self-titled album in 2003. Blink-182 was an American Pop
• Bon Jovi's Have a Nice Day uses an altered smiley. Bon Jovi is an American Hard rock band from Sayreville New Jersey. Have a Nice Day is Bon Jovi 's ninth studio album The album has gone platinum in the USA and several other countries
• The smiley face is widely used to represent acid house music. Acid house is a sub-genre of House music that emphasizes a repetitive hypnotic and trance -like style with samples or spoken lines usually used rather than sung lyrics
• When Rhino Records issued a series of 70s music CDs called "Have A Nice Day" , they used a smiley with a crooked smile on the CDs.

Software

• The email program, IncrediMail widely encourages people to use animated smileys in their email message. The company designed its own style calling them "Chubbycons".
• The Microsoft Windows gamelet Tetravex changes all tiles to a smiley if the player solves the puzzle without hints.
• Clouds with smileys are a common element in the universe of the Super Mario Bros. game. is a Platform game developed by Nintendo in late 1985 and published for the Nintendo Entertainment System, a sequel to the 1983 game Mario Most prominently, the enemy Lakitu is usually seen riding a smiling cloud. This is a list of enemies in the ''Mario'' series of Video games Blooper Bloopers ( in Japanese originally known in English as Bloobers
• A bespectacled smiley was used as part of the logo of the Microsoft Bob software

Minesweeper implementation that uses a smiley to reflect the status of the current game. Microsoft Bob was a Microsoft Software product released in March 1995, which provided a new nontechnical interface to Desktop computing Minesweeper is a single-player computer game The object of the game is to clear an abstract minefield without detonating a mine.

• The first-person shooter game MIDI Maze, 1987 and its follow up Faceball 2000 (for various handhelds and consoles) exclusively used 3D-rendered smileys of various shapes, expressions, and colors as its players and enemies. A first-person shooter ( FPS) is an action Video game from the Shooter game The initial development of Maze War MIDI Maze was an early First person shooter Video game for the Atari ST developed by Xanth Software F/X, published by MIDI Maze was an early First person shooter Video game for the Atari ST developed by Xanth Software F/X, published by
• In the video game Toonstruck, King Hugh has a smiley for head; ball-shaped and yellow with the classic eyes and mouth of a smiley. Toonstruck is a 1996 Point-and-click adventure game in which although all the imagery is drawn and Scanned into the game the protagonist Also, smileys appear several places in the country of Cutopia, where most of the beginning takes place.
• UNET2 Corporation implemented text to graphic smileys in their KeepTalking chat system in 1995.
• "Smileys" is also the name of a gang in the Rockstar video game Manhunt.
• In the video game Black & White, the player can tattoo and choose the smiley face as a symbol of their god. Black & White is a Computer game developed by Lionhead Studios and published by Electronic Arts and Feral Interactive.
• In the game Halo 2 on Xbox, the player's character can have a smiley on its armour. Halo 2 is a Science fiction First-person shooter Video game developed by Bungie Studios.
• In the video game System Shock, a bullet-ridden smiley can be seen on the hacker protagonist's t-shirt in the opening cinematic.
• In the game The Last Smiley on Neopets, the player plays a 3D smiley collecting 2D smiley icons. Neopets (originally NeoPets) is a virtual pet Website launched by Adam Powell and Donna Williams on 15 November 1999
• In the video game Smiley COMMANDOS, smileys are playing to outsmart each other.
• In the FPS series Unreal Tournament, each flak shell is decorated with a smiley face on the front. A first-person shooter ( FPS) is an action Video game from the Shooter game The initial development of Maze War Unreal Tournament is a First-person shooter Video game co-developed by Epic Games and Digital Extremes.
• In the arcade game Berzerk (1980) and its sequel, Frenzy (1982), the menacing "Evil Otto" was a bouncing yellow smiley face. Berzerk is a multi-directional shooter Video game, released in 1980 by Stern Electronics of Chicago. Frenzy was an arcade game published by Stern Electronics in 1982
• The iCab web browser uses a smiling or frowning face to indicate whether the code of the web page being viewed is compliant with specifications. iCab is a Web browser for the Macintosh by Alexander Clauss derived from Crystal Atari Browser (CAB for Atari TOS compatible computers
• The video game character Pac-man is considered by many to be a sideways smiley, and on some box-art it has been rendered as a 3-dimensional smiley with arms and legs. is an Arcade game developed by Namco and licensed for distribution
• Recent versions of Microsoft Word often automatically replace common smileys (such as :), :( and :|) with graphical representations

Sport

English football team Leeds United had a club badge that was very similar to the yellow smiley face in the early 1970s. Microsoft Word is Microsoft 's flagship word processing software. Leeds United Association Football Club, commonly referred to as simply Leeds United or informally Leeds, are an English professional football

See also

• Emoticon
• Kaoani
• ASCII art (text/ASCII smileys)

References

External links

• Smileyworld Ltd. The UK-based trademark owner of the Smiley name and original logo in more than 100 countries. Events 1279 BC - Rameses II (The Great (19th dynasty becomes pharaoh of Ancient Egypt.
• Smiley Lore  :-) Scott E. Fahlman's webpage about smilies