Most searches for “ASCII emoticons” get you Unicode ones:
- [WayBack] Unicode kaomoji smileys emoticons emoji · GitHub
- [WayBack] emoji.json/emoji.js at master · paragbhadoria/emoji.json · GitHub
Luckily most are ASCII in List of emoticons – Wikipedia.
There are also shortcodes, which do not visually represent an emoji, but usually get translated to the image or Unicode character.
A few lists on them:
- [WayBack] Emoji-list with emojis, names, shortcodes, unicode and html entities [massive list] · GitHub
- [WayBack] The complete list of all Skype smileys codes.
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Emoji Shortcodes
Emoji Shortcodes–jeroen