Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Emoticon" in English language version.
Emoticon: An acronym for emotion icon, a small icon composed of punctuation characters that indicate how an e-mail message should be interpreted (that is, the writer's mood).[page needed]
Scott Fahlman, a computer scientist at Carnegie Mellon University, was credited with popularizing early text-based emoticons in 1982
Scott Fahlman, a computer scientist at Carnegie Mellon University, was credited with popularizing early text-based emoticons in 1982
To complicate matters, some emoji are also emoticons [...] the emoji which depict emotive faces are separated out as "emoticons".
Fahlman became the acknowledged originator of the ASCII-based emoticon.