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This article will state a short yet useful explanation on the history of smiley icons their evolution. Let’s get started, shall we?

The first ever illustrated style of yellow smiley face with two simple black dots for eyes with a single line half-moon shaped mouth can first be traced back to advertising materials produced by Harvey Ball 1964 in Worcester, MA. There was a specific intention why he did this; it was for a client who was attempting to ease the transition of two companies following a merger. No, he didn’t just make it for fun.
However, that’s not the beginning of smiley icons. The first recorded use of combinations of characters and symbols to represent emotions was in 1857 when people used Morse code, particularly, the number 73 which stood for love and kisses. Later in 1881 “Puck”, an American magazine started printing character based emotions on a regular basis. One of the first widely used smiley icons was “:-J” which represented “tongue in cheek”.

The first occurrence of the use of smiley icons on the internet was from Scott Falman who implemented the use of the smiley face symbols “:-)” and “:-(” on his message boards to represent of one is simply joking or serious, since much confusion was occurring on the message boards.

Nowadays, smiley icons have become very widespread in digital communication, most instant messengers, email providers, and forums support the use of smileys either by having a menu of smileys present for easy implementation or automatically converting character sequences into images. Although smiley icons are mostly accepted among teenage girls, it is used by almost everyone in every age group. This is not surprising since 90% of human communication is non verbal.

The trademark to the yellow smiley icons is claimed by a lot of people and companies, including the mighty Wal-mart. In 2006 Wal-mart used the icon in a popular advertising campaign and attempted to claim the copyright to the image in the USA but is then lost a court case in 2008, when the judge determined that they do not own the trademark to this image. Wal-mart then removed the image from its advertising campaigns and website. Who knew much history is involved from a simple smiling face? Now, that’s something awesome!

Do you wonder what hit the Internet today? Wonder no more: Smiley Face Clip Art has opened up with a huge smiley collection, emerging from the darkness to lighten up your emails, instant messengers and even your mobile phone. These smiley emoticons are absolutely free that most people are definitely fun-crazed in downloading them. The Internet community is plagued with the presence of thousands of smileys that range from happy to angry emoticons and from simple colors to multi-colored icons and all of these can be yours within seconds. The possibilities of having new and unique emoticons are endless and it can be yours just by downloading them free.

Aside from the common mood smiley icons, there are also emoticons that you can use for every occasion such as birthday, Thanksgiving and Christmas to liven up your messages wherever you will send them. When you want to express yourself without saying the words, emoticons are the best way to do it.

Smiley Face Clip Art spared no expense. And there are plenty of applications that these little icons can be utilized. Web designers can add them to websites to add some flavor and taste especially the icons that can talk. That would sure attract attention, wouldn’t they? Your visitor might want to stay for a while and listen to the voice talking. Perhaps, this is more applicable for art and entertainment websites but nonetheless, it could entertain your clients while they are browsing to your site. If you think these emoticons are just used in emails and messengers then you are wrong. Your site will also benefit from it.

One visit to Smiley Face Clip Art may be enough to paint the smiles of your visitors or readers, for life! It may even be enough to change the mood of your day. Download the huge smiley collection and see what you can do with them. You won’t be disappointed!

Smiley face clip art has taken the Internet by storm. These free emoticons are being downloaded at a record pace and it seems as though people can’t get enough of them. The smilies are sent through MSN IM or through other instant messengers. People even tag emails. Smiley faces have permeated the consciousness of the world! There are sad smileys, happy smileys, mad smileys, crazy smileys, colored smileys…laughing smileys. The list goes on and on.

Plus there’s an emoticon for every occasion; birthday smileys, Christmas smileys, Thanksgiving smileys, and as a matter of fact there’s even funeral smileys. Of course if somebody dies I’m not sure he (or she) has anything to smile about. Then again, maybe the relatives of the deceased will be receiving a mass fortune once probate goes through. That “might” be something to smile about )

Smiley face clip art has a lot of uses. Many web designers dip into the emoticon basket to add a little website flavor for their clients. What if you could have a smiley that talks? How might that entice your web visitors to stay around a little longer? Do you think adding an animated smiley would entertain some folks? I bet it would! Best part, if you’ve got something to sell, you’ll get more exposure to your product just by having people hang around another 10 seconds to see what the animated smiley will do next.

All in all, having smiley face clip art on your site, or you seeing it on another site, brings more smiles (pardon the pun) to the world. And when we have violence and negativity all over the place, we should be able to find a reason to smile. Spread a little joy. Add a smiley face to your website. Life just got brighter. That’s just my take on it! Download the free smiley emoticons at the top of the blog – and enjoy!