By the time of the twenty-first century, communication has come a long way. From Morse code to instant messaging, there has been a big change in the way people communicate on a global scale. As one of the biggest inventions of the 21st century, smartphones have almost eliminated the need to communicate with words. Long sentences expressing happiness, surprise or sadness have been turned into little yellow faces – what we call emoji in common parlance.
In this age of social media and smartphones, almost every person must have used emoji in chatting. Emoji are everywhere in 2022. We also use them a lot every day on WhatsApp and Instagram. Emoji have made communication easier since the advent of digital interactions. They have become the most convenient way to communicate because emoji have clearly reduced the use of words.
Its impact is on all platforms of communication. The impact of emoji is so much that now there is a special day to celebrate it. We are talking about International Emoji Day. Every year on 17th July, Emoji Day is celebrated all over the world. Let’s know about the birth of this emoji and unheard stories related to it …
Emoji are also called pictograms, logograms, ideograms or smileys. This visual mode of text messaging was first detected in 1982, when computer scientist Scott Fahlman suggested that 🙂 and 🙁 could potentially replace language. It was later referred to as emoticons (Emotion and icons). Although this idea was not new, it was discovered by the famous novelist Vladimir Nabokov.
Nabokov once said in one of his interviews that I often think a smile needs to have a special typographical sign—a kind of concave sign that is round in shape. Although the emoji we see now is a very advanced version of it. Keeping in mind the growing importance of emoji, apps like WhatsApp, Instagram along with iOS and Android also add new characters to their existing emoji and are also modifying them from time to time.
The story of the birth of the emoji is also interesting, as initially only 250 words could be used to send an email. To solve this problem of fewer words, in the year 1999, a Japanese engineer Shigetaka Kurita gave birth to emoji. He created 176 sets of emoji which were in the form of small dots. He created the first emoji for telecom company NTT DoCoMo to attract people with emoji photos.
The emoji is believed to have become popular when Apple first premiered its iCal calendar application in 2002. Whereas on July 17, Apple introduced the color version of its iCal calendar.
But the credit for celebrating International Emoji Day on July 17 goes to Jeremy Burge. Jeremy Burge is also known as the emoji historian and founder of the Emojipedia website. Emojipedia is called the encyclopedia of emoji because it contains a wealth of information about the characters of emoji, their origin, changes in design and usage trends.
Burge created Emojipedia in 2013, based on the iPhone’s calendar emoji. A year after this i.e. on 17th July 2014, Jeremy Berg started celebrating International Emoji Day to give a special recognition to emoji and its achievements to the whole world and the first Emoji Day was celebrated in 2014. On this day the instant messaging application and Along with social media platforms, Apple and Android also invent new emoji. Our cute emoji turns eight years old in 2022 and more than 3 thousand emoji have been invented since 2014.
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By the time of the twenty first century, communication has come a long way. From Morse code to instant messaging, there has been a big change in the way people communicate on a global scale. As one of the biggest inventions of the 21st century, smartphones have almost eliminated the need to communicate with words. Long sentences expressing happiness, surprise or sadness have been turned into little yellow faces – what we call emoji in common parlance.
In this age of social media and smartphones, almost every person must have used emoji in chatting. Emoji are everywhere in 2022. We also use them a lot every day on WhatsApp and Instagram. Emoji have made communication easier since the advent of digital interactions. They have become the most convenient way to communicate because emoji have clearly reduced the use of words.
Its impact is on all platforms of communication. The impact of emoji is so much that now there is a special day to celebrate it. We are talking about International Emoji Day. Every year on 17th July, Emoji Day is celebrated all over the world. Let’s know about the birth of this emoji and unheard stories related to it …
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