07/17/2024
July 17 recognizes World Emoji Day and many of the world's symbolic icons for digital calendars. This day encourages us to use emojis to send unique messages. 🎉💬
Before the emoji, there were emoticons. Emoticons (emotion + icon) were developed to express emotions in the cold, hard texts that were devoid of them. 😊➡️😃
Emoji, a Japanese expression, roughly means "picture word" and was created by Shigetaka Kurita in 1990. While working for the Japanese telecom company NTT Docomo, Kurita designed these picture words as a feature on their pagers to make them more appealing to teens. 📱👨🎨🖼️
One of my favorite emojis is the 🦊 (fox) and 🌈 (rainbow)! What's yours? Share your favorite emoji in the comments! 👇
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