What makes this a Textbox? Considering it’s only an eight with a period and a zero inside two brackets, It forms a box-like figurine with a face expression.

Unlike traditional mainstream, smileys Textbox has a third eye in which the number eight makes for as well as representing the year it was first introduced.

First used and invented by LandRiders7th (LR7) on xat.com on May of 2008 as an alternative to express emotions in chat rooms.

It began to be the figure that identified LR7 to prevent impersonators and false users at the time. It has reach sites like MySpace, Zwinky, and Facebook.

By 2010 it reached to other places like Skype, Google talk along with IRC channels, Linux related forms reached to games like Cube 2 Suaer Braten and Red Eclipse in 2012.

Textbox is Also the official Mascot of the Operating System Called L-Core in which it was first introduced in the first beta based on Linux Mint 11 release on October 5th of 2011.

Before Textbox, there was another smiley called helmet head. (|-\ First used in 2007 on MySpace, Xat, and wincustomize.com for the same reason textbox was used for but only it’s not a boxed character but a face figure that can be seen from sideways.

It didn’t last as long and has been discontinued on September of 2011 due to lack of usage for expression.

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Lots Blocky───Much Lulz───So Doge [.-.]]>

Originally posted on Facebook On January 26, 2014 came an Ascii Art Remix by replacing The Doge Face with the Textbox smiley.

A featured song about Textbox has been released on may 31, 2014

A preview First promoted on August 25th, 2016  named: It’s just a poke from the promotional track and Ascii cover for the Textbox Block Party Album
From Reverbnation that’s been released on October 18, 2018

On August 18th, 2018 Plans have been announced that Textbox may become the worlds first Self-aware Mascot powered by artificial Intelligence (still pending)

 

Here are all the faces on the List.

1. [8.0] – watching face
2. [>.0] – wink
3. [>.>] – looking right
4. [>_0] – cold
5. [v_v] – feeling down
6. [8ᴗ0] – radiant
7. [>ᴗ0] – wink with a smile
8. [^ᴗ^] – yummy
9. [>ᴗ>] – looking right
10. [>~©] –angry
11. [vᴗv] – bright
12. [8˽0] – grave
13. [>˽0] – puzzled
14. [=ᴗ-] – as expected
15. [^~^] – delighted
16. [8ᴗ0] – tolerant/forgiving
17. [>ᴗ0] – consoling
18. [8~0] – gloomy
19. [8√0] – peering
20. [8ꞈ0] – blur
21. [^ꞈ^] – sulking
22. [vꞈv] – moody/woeful
23. [=ꞈ-] – whatever
24. [>ꞈ>] – worried/
25. [.ꞈ.] – needs attention
26. [8ω0] – pleading
27. ლ[8益0]ლ – Y U NO / pissed off
28. [8؁0] < WTH?
29. [“~”] – depressed
30. [ㅂㅅㅁ] – vacant
31. [8ㅎ0] – curious
32. [%p°] – inscrutable/unreadable/mysterious
33. [╯8益0]╯︵ ┻━┻) Flips Table – hostile
34. [✿◕‿◕｡] – cheerful
35. [✿◠‿◠｡] – joyous
36. [`◕ȯ◕´] made by Anna
    Sleepyhead
37. [ღ‿ღ] – blithe
38. [♥ᴗ♥] – feeling loved
39. [♡ᴗ♡] – leering
40. [｡♥‿♥｡] – shy
41. [♥︹♥] – heartbroken
42. \[≧△≦]/ – annoyed
43. ̿̿̿̿̿̿̿’̿̿̿̿̿’\̵͇̿̿\=[<_>] – Armed and confused
44. [>_>] – you kidding me? / unpleasant
45. ̿ ̿̿̿̿̿’̿’\̵͇̿̿\=[>︿<] – Armed
46. └[8ᴥ0]┘ – doge
47. [✿¬_¬｡] – glazed/expressionless due to fatigue or confusion
48. [>_>]-▄︻̷̿┻̿═━一 – 360 No scope
49. [8﹏0] – shivering/nervous
50. [>ᴗ<]-\m/ – Yah!!!!!!!
51. [>~>]👌 Bruh

Any more textbox face ideas to add? please let us know and they will be added to the list.

Faces labeled by Tini Maratin