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 http://www.pb.org/emoticon.html

The Unofficial Smiley Dictionary Collection of basic, well used and unique smileys. http://paul.merton.ox.ac.uk/ascii/smileys.html

Learn the Net: Smileys You can personalize your written messages by using smileys or emoticons. You create smileys by typing characters from your keyboard. http://www.learnthenet.com/english/html/25smile.htm

Also known as Put on a Happy Face Basic, rude and kissing smileys. http://anxiety-closet.mit.edu:8001/people/cordelia/smileys.html

Internet Smileys Basic, emotional, widely used and unusual smileys. http://members.aol.com/bearpage/smileys.htm

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. http://www.angelfire.com/ny/Smileyscolection/

EmoticonUniverse.com Expressing emotion in email correspondence. Directory and newsletter. http://emoticonuniverse.com/

User Friendly Editorial on the use of emoticons. http://anxiety-closet.mit.edu:8001/people/cordelia/smileys_edit.html

Smileys and Emoticons Recommended emoticons and smileys for email communication. http://www.windweaver.com/emoticon.htm

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.) http://www.pfccheatsheet.com/fnemot98.htm

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. http://www.muller-godschalk.com/emoticon.html

Jessica's Smiley Faces Large collection of smiley faces. http://members.tripod.com/~jessicarae/smiles/index.html

Smilies Unlimited Search the smiley faces database for the best face. http://www.smiliesunlimited.com/

The Ultimate Chatlist: Emoticon Search Search for an emoticon or look at the whole list. http://www.chatlist.com/newcfdocs/searchfaces.cfm

NetLingo: Smileys and Emoticons Online directory to look up words, acronyms, smileys, ASCII art, whatever you don't understand. http://www.netlingo.com/smiley.cfm

Smilies, Smilies, Smilies Selection of text smileys. http://galway.informatik.uni-kl.de/rec/smilies.html

Emoticons Big archive of emoticons and smileys. Funny faces, sad faces and happy faces. http://www.won.nl/dsp/usr/mvketel/Internet/emoticon.html

Bronwen and Claire's Really Huge Emoticon Collection The original emoticon site. Common and not so common emoticons. http://www.angelfire.com/hi/hahakiam/emoticon.html

Canonical Smiley List Compiled list of smileys and one line ASCII art. http://www.astro.umd.edu/~marshall/smileys.html

Smile! It's Contagious! List of emoticons on a page with some smiley graphics. http://www.paradiseawaits.com/Smile.html