When is World Emoji Day?
Monday July 17thWorld Emoji Day and several of the world's symbolic icons for digital calendars are commemorated on July 17th. We're encouraged to send unique messages by the day's announcement that emojis can be used to send emojis.
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Emojis existed before the emoji, but emoticons existed. Emoticons (emotion + icon) was created as an expression of emotions in the cold hard texts that were uninhabitable of them.
Emoji, a Japanese word, roughly means "picture word" and was created by Shigetaka Kurita in 1990. Kurita would make these picture words a feature on their pagers to make them more obtainable to teens while working for the Japanese telecom company NTT Docomo.
To nab the Japanese market, Apple's first iPhone released in 2007 had an emoji keyboard embedded into the phone. While not meant for Americans to find, they did and quickly figured out how to use it.
