Gretchen McCulloch, the foremost expert on Internet English, traces it back to 2010, when people started using the ~, or tilde symbol, to express “sparkle enthusiasm.” ...

All of which is to say: The 3,000-year-old tilde might want to consider rebranding itself as Invisible Man With Twirled Mustache. It’s easy to dismiss emoji. They are, at first glance, ridiculous.

Change the “Character set” option to “Unicode.” Finally, type “007E” into the adjacent search box and press Enter. Once you find the tilde symbol, you can click on it to copy it. For Mac: To type the ...

The simple punctuation mark that speaks a thousand words. BuzzFeed News Reporter Last month in New York, Adam Sternbergh began his long cultural history of emojis by contrasting Face With Tears of Joy ...

Which means that in three short years, Face With Tears of Joy ­vanquished the 3,000-year-old tilde. And that’s just one emoji.