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An emoji is a pictogram, logogram, or ideogram embedded in text and used in electronic messages and web pages. The primary function of modern emoji is to fill in emotional cues otherwise missing from
Emoji being added to a text message, 2013
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An emoticon is a pictorial representation of a facial expression using characters—usually punctuation marks, numbers and letters—to express a person's feelings, mood or reaction, without needing to de
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…and around the world. In 2015, Oxford Dictionaries named the emoji U+1F602 😂 FACE WITH TEARS OF JOY its word of the year. The emoji was predated by the emoticon, a concept implemented in 1982 by computer scientist Scott Fahlman when he suggested text-based symbols such as :-) and :-( could be used to replace…
Cover of the French magazine Le Charivari, text of a legal ruling against the magazine in the shape of a pear, 1834
Transcript of Abraham Lincoln's speech in 1862
Telegraphische Zeichenkunst in the German Deutsche Postzeitung, November 16, 1896
A kaomoji painting in Japan