I think a lot of us born in late-80s to early-90s were first introduced to emoji on chat platform MSN Messenger. So in 1999, Japanese designer Shigataka Kurita invented prototype emoji for the first mobile internet platform: i-mode. With the popularity of these symbols growing, the idea arose to turn emoticons into real images, as opposed to just text that resembles an image. As anyone who’s sent an email knows, it’s far too easy to miscommunicate without the added human features of tone and expression, and emoticons helped clarify the meaning behind messages with pictorial representations (though I still like Arj Barker’s suggestion of fixing the issue with new fonts like “Good Times Roman”). These humanoid text-symbols became known as “emoticons” (which, admit it, you first read as “emotion”).Įmoticons became a great way to convey tone and emotion to our otherwise sterile, black-and-white text. Through our mighty human intellect we learned during the dawn of computer technology that when you typed a colon symbol next to a bracket symbol on the computer, it looked like a crude smiling face. This is where everything seemed to start. But how did these golden round faces work their way into everyday life, and how are they being used? It’s time to delve into the secret language of emoji. That hasn’t stopped nearly every country and culture adopting these funny little images to enhance their online conversational skills. However, because emoji originated in Japan, there are some cultural references which can get lost in translation by those of us not in the know. These adorable Japanese icons allow us to inject extra emotion and humour into our electronic communications and, by replacing words with emoji, even save time.įor the most part, emoji are pretty straight forward: you post a smiling face when you’re happy, a crying face when you’re sad and a winking face when you’re being a little bit cheeky. It’s rare to see a status, tweet, text or post without an emoji these days.
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