Emoji date back to 1999 when they first appeared on Japanese cell phones. But it’s history goes further than that, because ...

You just need a really good 10-page paper. Emoji is actually a Japanese word that means "pictogram" or "pictograph." SoftBank, a Japanese wireless carrier, created the first known emoji set in 1997.

Emoji were invented in 1998 by the Japanese interface designer Shigetaka Kurita, and released the following year by a mobile phone company seeking to give users communicative shortcuts ...

Anyone can submit an idea for a new emoji. The Unicode Standard -- a universal character encoding standard -- is responsible ...

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(The museum acquired the original suite of emoji designs for their permanent collection in 2016; an acknowledgement of the work’s important place in communication history.) Designers Jesse Reed and ...

as I believed they were easy to use especially under the Japanese language framework. Q: What is your take on the permanent emoji collection at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City?