[Quillz]

Originally Posted by MRGTB

Maybe the defaults one were, I would'nt know. But a few years ago I was browsing an IPB site, and the owner was asking members to upload there very own IPB smilies that they had created themselves for use with IPB boards. Don't ask me now what they site was, I just don't know.

But at the time, some of the smilies created by the members were just like the default IPB smilies, animated one's and all that which are quite common today and used on many IPB boards.

In fact, I'm not even sure if it was a thread created on the offical IPB board itself at the time. But there were pages after pages of the IPB custom smilies that members created. Not IPB

I think the "core" emoticons (the standard happy, sad, etc.) were created by James Mathias, whereas many of the other ones (ones that wave signs, etc.) were fan-made.