What is World Emoji Day?
World Emoji Day and several of the world's symbolic icons for digital calendars are commemorated on July 17th. The day encourages us to use emojis to send specific messages.
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There were emoticons before the emoji was used. Emoticons (emotion + icon) was created as an expression of emotion in the cold hard texts that were uninitiated of them.
Emoji, a Japanese word, roughly means "picture word" and was created by Shigetaka Kurita in 1990. Kurita will make these picture words a feature on their pages to make them more appealing to teenagers while working for NTT Docomo.
To nab the Japanese market, Apple's introduction of the first iPhone by Apple in 2007 had an emoji keyboard embedded into the phone. Although not intended for US users to find, they did and quickly figured out how to use it.
