These proto-emoticons were published in the satirical magazine Puck on 30 March, 1881. Although often described as the first emoticons, they seem to be a rip-off of a Polish magazine from just a few weeks earlier.
Read more or see more emoticons from the 1800’s.
Post updated in 2024.
A joke posted here in 2009. Samurai on the Toilet by Takeshi Kitano, 1970.
We reblogged this from visual-poetry in the belief that it was real. Sorry about that.
(post updated in June, 2024)
Kaoiro, a handmade Japanese emoticon (kaomoji) stamp by Gung with 7 belts of 20 symbols each.
Post updated in 2024
