Yes. (Damn, it's hard to find a "list of emoticons" (or even "usenet faq") from back in the day now. So much more recent stuff clogging the search results.) A

Yes. (Damn, it's hard to find a "list of emoticons" (or even "usenet faq") from back in the day now. So much more recent stuff clogging the search results.) Anyway, this list of emoticons from '94 (according to the internet archive) is a pretty good representative of the sort of thing that people passed around then: https://ia802801.us.archive.org/view_archive.php?archive=/23/items/EMOTIC11_ZIP/EMOTIC11.ZIP&file=EMOTICON.TXT https://ia802801.us.archive.org/view_archive.php?archive=/23... As you can see, most have noses. Also, RFC-1855 (Netiquette Guidelines) from October '95 has one example of a smiley in §2.1.1: "Use smileys to indicate tone of voice, but use them sparingly. :-) is an example of a smiley (Look sideways)." I suspect that at least one of the bibliographical references provided would have contained a decent list of them at the time, but so many links are dead now. (And even if some of the ftp ones still exist, most browsers have dropped ftp support now, so most people are kinda SOL there anyway.) http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1855.html http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1855.html