Smiley Download

Are you looking for a smiley download to add to your instant messaging program such as Yahoo Messenger or MSN Messenger? Well good news for you because I'm going to show you exactly how you can get thousands of smiley downloads for FREE!

All you need to do is follow these simple steps:

1. Click on the banners that you see advertising free smileys on this site.

2. Once you open up the new page, follow the simple instructions and download the toolbar.

3. Once you have completed that you'll be able to access 10,000s of different MSN smileys for FREE! The best thing is that the software toolbar is absolutely 100% free of spyware and viruses so you can rest assured that you won't be downloading anything nasty onto your computer system! 

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So what are smileys?

They are simply graphical representations of human emotions that you can send to someone whilst you're online chatting and typing to them. In fact, what many people do not know is that the very first emoticon or smiley was the exclamation mark and the question mark. They were created so that the reader would understand better what the writer had to say in terms of their emotional thought processes. Now they are so widely used we think of them as normal things in the English language but at one point in time they were the smileys of their age!

The modern age smiley that we know was first officially made famous by Scott Fahlman in 1982 when he was posting on the CMU bulletin system. He would use : - ) for a smile and then use a : - ( for a frown. He did this because he believed that his readers would not know if he was being serious or being sarcastic. After that, the use became very common and spread like wildfire throughout the internet. It should be noted that although Scott was officially credited for being the creator of the very first smiley, I think it would be silly to think that he was the very first guy to use it. He just made it popular.

Unfortunately, Fahlman didn't save his posts and they were nearly forgotten for 20 years until Jeff Baird found a backup of the posts in his personal archive. The yellow smiley that we see common these days we made popular by the brothers Murray and Bernard Spain when they exploited and popularized it by putting it on computer buttons, coffee mugs, t shirts and bumper stickers for cars. Then in 1980 a small smiley emoticon was incorporated in Windows winding font tables.

Now I can go on forever about the history of smileys, but you know what? Thats probably not what you're here for. Just download the thousands of free smileys by clicking on the banners and start using them in your conversations today!