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. “Smiley” is also sometimes used as a generic term for any emoticon. Smiley may mean: The Smiley face drawing. ... Image File history File links Smiley. ... Image File history File links Smiley. ... Kolobok — (from Ukrainian: — circle side) the character of a Ukranian national fairy tale with the same name, represented as a small yellow spherical being. ... Emoticons originated with text representations. ...

Origin

The very earliest known examples of the graphic are attributed to Harvey Ball, who devised the face in 1963 for a Worcester, Massachusetts, USA-based insurance firm, State Mutual Life Assurance.^[1] 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.^[2] As a result, Ball never made any profit for the iconic image beyond his initial $45 fee. Harvey Ross Ball (10 July 1921 – 12 April 2001) is famous for his invention of the Smiley. ... For other uses, see Worcester (disambiguation). ... Motto: (traditional) In God We Trust (official, 1956–present) Anthem: The Star-Spangled Banner Capital Washington, D.C. Largest city New York City Official language(s) None at the federal level; English de facto Government Federal Republic  - President George W. Bush (R)  - Vice President Dick Cheney (R) Independence - Declared - Recognized... “(TM)” redirects here. ... The public domain comprises the body of all creative works and other knowledge—writing, artwork, music, science, inventions, and others—in which no person or organization has any proprietary interest. ...

David Stern of David Stern Inc., a Seattle-based advertising agency also claimed to have invented the smiley. 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.^[3] City nickname Emerald City City bird Great Blue Heron City flower Dahlia City mottos The City of Flowers The City of Goodwill City song Seattle, the Peerless City Mayor Greg Nickels County King County Area   - Total   - Land   - Water   - % water 369. ... An advertising agency or ad agency is a service business dedicated to creating, planning and handling advertising (and sometimes other forms of promotion) for its clients. ... “WaMu” redirects here. ...

Popularization

The graphic was popularized in the early 1970s by a pair of brothers, Murray and 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). For other uses, see Coffee (disambiguation). ... T-Shirt A T-shirt (or tee shirt) is a shirt with short or long sleeves, a round neck, put on over the head, without pockets. ... A bumper sticker is, usually, an adhesive label or sticker with message attached to, or designed to be attached to, the bumper of a vehicle (almost invariably an automobile, van, pickup truck, minivan or the like), for the purpose of being read by the driver and/or passengers in following...

The smiley is largely associated in the UK with the acid house dance music culture that emerged in during the second summer of love in the late 1980s, often used as engraving famous logos on ecstasy tablets at the time.^[4] For the 1994 novel by Irvine Welsh, see The Acid House. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... The Second Summer of Love is a name given to the period in 1988 in Britain, during the rise of Acid House music and the euphoric explosion of unlicensed Ecstasy-fuelled rave parties[1]. The term generally refers to both the summers of 1988/9[2] [3] when electronic dance... MDMA (3,4-methylenedioxy-N-methylamphetamine), most commonly known today by the street name ecstasy, (often abbreviated to E, X, or XTC) is a semisynthetic empathogen-entactogen of the phenethylamine family. ...

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.^[5][6] In 2006 Wal-mart began to phase out the smiley face on its vests^[7] and its website as part of a "no smiling" campaign.^[8] Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. ...

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".^[9]

More than 1,200 smiley emoticons are registered with the Washington Library of Congress and protected by the Universal Copyright Convention.^{[citation needed]} The Universal Copyright Convention (UCC), adopted at Geneva in 1952, is one of the two principal international conventions protecting copyright; the other is the Berne Convention. ...

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 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, though modern fonts for graphical user interfaces often do not include those characters. GIF redirects here. ... Emoticons originated with text representations. ... IBM PC or MS-DOS Codepage 437, also known as DOS-US or OEM-US, is the original character set of the IBM PC, from 1981. ... IBM PC (IBM 5150) with keyboard and green screen monochrome monitor (IBM 5151), running MS-DOS 5. ... GUI redirects here. ...

The Wingdingsfont also includes a smiley: Smileys and emoticonsare often used on Internet forums. Wingdings is a TrueType dingbat font included in all versions of Microsoft Windows starting with version 3. ... Image File history File links Wingdingsmiley. ... An emoticon, also called a smiley, is a sequence of printable characters such as :) or :-) that is intended to represent a human facial expression and convey an emotion. ... A typical Internet forum discussion, with common elements such as quotes and spoiler brackets A page from a forum showcasing emoticons and Internet slang An Internet forum is a web application for holding discussions and posting user generated content. ...

Typographical smileys

The satrirical U.S. magazine Puck presented these typographical emoticons on March 30, 1881.

Main article: Emoticon

Many typographical representations of smiley faces have been developed over the years. 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. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... The cover of the April 23, 1884 issue. ... An emoticon, also called a smiley, is a sequence of printable characters such as :) or :-) that is intended to represent a human facial expression and convey an emotion. ... Emoticons originated with text representations. ...

Kitty Cat ^-^_| 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. 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.^[10] The ichthys has been used to represent a number of ideas. ... is the 262nd day of the year (263rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Scott E. Fahlman (born March 21, 1948, in Medina, Ohio, USA) is a computer scientist at Carnegie Mellon University. ... Carnegie Mellon University is a private research university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. ... is the 253rd day of the year (254th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...

More recently, small, in-line graphical images of smileys and other faces have become popular, especially on forums: A typical Internet forum discussion, with common elements such as quotes and spoiler brackets A page from a forum showcasing emoticons and Internet slang An Internet forum is a web application for holding discussions and posting user generated content. ...

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. Image File history File links Smile-tpvgames. ... Image File history File links Cry-tpvgames. ... Image File history File links Confused-tpvgames. ... Image File history File links Sad-tpvgames. ... Image File history File links Shocked-tpvgames. ... Image File history File links Misc-tpvgames. ... // Instant messaging (IM) is a form of real-time communication between two or more people based on typed text. ...

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. His first 16 bombs formed circles, the first in Nebraska and the second on the border between Illinois and Iowa. Those bombs completed the eyes. Two other bombs in Texas and Colorado were apparently the beginnings of the smile. However, he was captured before being able to complete it. Helder performing with Apathy in his hometown of Pine Island, Minnesota. ... This does not cite its references or sources. ... Official language(s) English Capital Lincoln Largest city Omaha Largest metro area Omaha Area  Ranked 16th  - Total 77,421 sq mi (200,520 km²)  - Width 210 miles (340 km)  - Length 430 miles (690 km)  - % water 0. ... Official language(s) English[1] Capital Springfield Largest city Chicago Largest metro area Chicago Metropolitan Area Area  Ranked 25th  - Total 57,918 sq mi (140,998 km²)  - Width 210 miles (340 km)  - Length 390 miles (629 km)  - % water 4. ... This article is about the U.S. state. ... For other uses, see Texas (disambiguation). ... Official language(s) English Capital Denver Largest city Denver Largest metro area Denver-Aurora Metro Area Area  Ranked 8th  - Total 104,185 sq mi (269,837 km²)  - Width 280 miles (451 km)  - Length 380 miles (612 km)  - % water 0. ...

A certain species of Hawaiian spider, Theridion grallator, a.k.a. the Happyface Spider, has some morphs which display an uncanny smiley-face pattern on its yellow body. This article is about the U.S. State. ... Binomial name Theridion grallator Simon, 1900 Theridion grallator, also known as the happyface spider, is a member of the Theridiidae family. ...

The smallest incarnation of the smiley was created by Paul Rothemund of the California Institute of Technology. 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. Paul W.K. 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)[1] is a private, coeducational research university located in Pasadena, California, in the United States. ... The structure of part of a DNA double helix Deoxyribonucleic acid, or DNA, is a nucleic acid molecule that contains the genetic instructions used in the development and functioning of all known living organisms. ... Nanoscale folding of DNA, also known as DNA origami, was pioneered by Paul Rothemund at California Institute of Technology. ... A nanostructure is an intermediate size between molecular and microscopic (micrometer-sized) structures. ...

The 230km (143 mile) wide Martian crater Galle (on the Argyre Planitia) very strongly resembles a smiley face. This article is about hypothetical native inhabitants of the planet Mars. ... For the crater on the moon, see Galle (lunar crater). ... Argyre Planitia is a plain located in the Argyre impact basin in the southern highlands of Mars between -35 and -61 deg S and 27 and 62 deg W. The basin is approximately 1120 miles (1800 kilometers) wide, the second-largest impact basin on Mars after Hellas Planitia, and drops...

A smiley face can be seen within a properly placed dental implant in a dental radiograph.^{[citation needed]} X-Ray picture of two rectangular dental implants inserted into the jaw. ... Radiography is the creation of radiographs, photographs made by exposing a photographic film or other image receptor to X-rays. ...

In the computer game, Unreal Tournament, there is a smiley face on the front of the flak cannon's arcing contact grenade (secondary fire). 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. Unreal Tournament, abbreviated UT, (sometimes referred to as UT99, UT Classic, UT1, or UT:GOTY to differentiate from Unreal Tournament 2003, Unreal Tournament 2004, and Unreal Tournament 3) is a popular first-person shooter video game. ... This article is about velocity in physics. ...

Smileys in popular culture

A smiley face adorns the north side of the water tower in Hammond, Illinois.

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Advertising

• In 1986, Eat'n Park first introduced the "Smiley" cookie.
• The Sonar Music Festival is actively using the "Smiley" logo in its campaigns.

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Art and literature

• The yellow smiley is a recurring theme in the comic book series Watchmen (Alan Moore & David Gibbons, 1986). 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.
• 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. The 2001 movie Evolution used a similar smiley in promotions a number of years later under license from Smileyworld Ltd.
• 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. 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.
• In the 2003 comic Solus a fragment of Danik is named Polla and looks like a talking smiley.
• 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.
• The Banksy riot-police version of the smiley was used in the graphic novel The Smoke.
• Stephen King's reoccurring villain Randall Flagg often wears a smiley badge.
• 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.
• The DC comic four-issue mini-series Prez featured a shady political boss named Mr. Smiley. This short series was referenced in Issue #53 of Neil Gaiman's seminal comic book series The Sandman. In the Sandman story, "Boss Smiley" controlled all of Prez Rickard's reality.
• 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.
• The US KC HiLiTES company uses a smiley design for its spot light cover in its range, the smiley uses the "K" and "C" as eyes and "Daylighter" as the mouthpiece.^[11] This cover design was a common feature on Tamiya radio-controlled buggies in the 1980s.
• A picture of a smiley face with a Hitler-style mustache is on the cover of Jonah Goldberg's 2008 book Liberal Fascism.

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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. The radar was designed to guide a Terrier missile so that it can shootdown an aircraft or missile.

• 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. 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. A similar face previously appeared in the Fight Club novel.
• 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".
• In the 1995 film Virtuosity a smiley is used to mark a restaurant where the virtual serial killer "Sid 6.7" was hiding.
• In the 2001 film Evolution a three eyed smiley is used as a symbol for aliens.
• A smiley can be vaguely seen on the bloodstained medical gurney in the crash scene of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.
• In Lost, one character landed on the island in a balloon with a smiley face on it.
• WWE wrestler Mick Foley's most common logo is a smiley with his trademark Mankind mask over it. 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.
• 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.

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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.
• 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.
• Bon Jovi's Have a Nice Day uses an altered smiley.
• The smiley face is widely used to represent acid house music.
• 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.

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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. Most prominently, the enemy Lakitu is usually seen riding a smiling cloud.
• 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.

• 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.
• 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. 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.
• In the game Halo 2 on Xbox, the player's character can have a smiley on its armour.
• 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.
• 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.
• In the arcade game Berzerk (1980) and its sequel, Frenzy (1982), the menacing "Evil Otto" was a bouncing yellow smiley face.
• 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.
• 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.
• Recent versions of Microsoft Word often automatically replace common smileys (such as :), :( and :|) with graphical representations

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See also

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

Emoticons originated with text representations. ... A kaoani Kaoani comes from the japanese kao (face) and ani (animation). ... ASCII art, an artistic medium relying primarily on computers for presentation, consists of pictures pieced together from characters (preferably from the 95 printable characters defined by ASCII). ...

References

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External links

• World Smile Day website - Founded by Harvey Ball celebrated on the first Friday in October
• Smileyworld Ltd. The UK-based trademark owner of the Smiley name and original logo in more than 100 countries.
• Smiley Lore  :-) Scott E. Fahlman's webpage about smilies
• "Joke" Conversation Thread Copy of the original Bboard thread by Scott Fahlman, in which :-) was proposed.
• A short history of the smiley face with picture of original Harvey Ball pin
• Google Directory - Arts > Visual Arts > ASCII Art > Smileys
• Smiley evolution image
• Emoticon (Smiley) Origin at snopes.com