World Emoji Day
World 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.
Every year, new emojis (both emoji and emojis are acceptable plural forms of the word) are introduced. Emoji updates for both mobile and operating systems are available on www.emojipedia.org. Over 1800 emojis cover more than just emotions... Emojis virtually speak for themselves, from transportation, food, a collection of wild and domesticated animals to social media, weather, and bodily functions.
How to track world emoji day is the subject of a global emoji day
Explore emojis. If they're it! Send them to your friends. If they're it! To post on social media, use #WorldEmojiDay to post.
The emoji day of the world's oldest emoji day has a long tradition
World Emoji Day was established in 2014 by Emojipedia founder Jeremy Burge. Jeremy Burge created World Emoji Day in 2014. Since its inception in 2002, the date of July 17th has been integral to the iconic red and black Apple calendar emoji.
