In the beginning of the World Wide Web, transferring data was slow and costly, so methods were devised to minimize the amount of data transmitted and still convey the message.

One of the results was the ‘Smiley’ – an icon consisting of only a few characters and thus very cheap and fast to transmit. The added advantage was that with just three characters you could indicate that you were smiling  🙂  or frowning  🙁  instead of writing a little novel to express that this was your emotion when writing an email or quick instant message.

Since then, bandwidth has become a lot cheaper, and the reason to reduce the amount of data is not that relevant any more. But in our illiterate times, it is still necessary for many people to have the means to simply express if they are saying something humorous or threatening…

• I’m going to kill you  🙂
• I’m going to kill you  🙁

Obviously, specialized areas of the WWW thought that they require such symbology as well, and today we show you one area where such iconography was very successfully implemented – in the description of the female breast – a never-ending interest of the male population.

Without further ado, here are your breast smileys…