Happy birthday to us!

June marks Smiley Central's fifth anniversary. Since we first started offering free smiley characters in June 2003, over 3.2 billion Smiley Central smileys have been sent around the world in IMs, emails, and on social network profile pages.

That's right - 3.2 billion.

Here's a fun fact. We launched Smiley Central with only 200 smileys. (Which we thought was a huge number of emoticons back then.) The demand was so strong for more - we were receiving hundreds of email smiley requests a week - that we quickly went to work to double that number, then triple it, quadruple it... and today we're up to over 12,000 emoticons in total - all created in-house by our talented design team.

Our smileys have changed a good deal over time. We went from simple pixelated smiley characters that barely moved to smileys with short animated storylines.

Then we introduced super smileys - 3D-like emoticons that propelled Smiley Central into one of the largest downloadable software programs in the world.

From there, we tried adding sound to our smileys - a big hit with instant messager users. And of course, we took this even one step further with our music artist smiley program... working with such celebs as Aly & AJ, Rob Thomas, Meat Loaf, Lily Allen and Corbin Bleu.

Our smileys are now used in screensavers, ecards and are a big part of our social network profile customizer, Webfetti.




Of course, we wouldn't still be around creating new smileys today it if weren't for you. Our users have helped guide us all these years, providing great feedback, suggestions, and encouragement along the way. Many copycat online businesses have sprung up over the years promising their own smiley emoticons, but we still feel we're far-and-away the best quality smiley product in the world, bar none. So thank you for your support - and here's to another five great years!