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Emoji were designed on a 12 by 12 grid in the late 90s

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  1. Emeka Novak
    @ciphermonk-1x9

    emoji history in steps:

    1. Late 1990s, Japan: mobile carriers add pictograms to their phones. 2 馃槶 1999: NTT Docomos i-mode set with 176 icons on a 12x12 grid becomes the famous one.
    2. other carriers make their own incompatible sets.
    3. 2010: emoji are added to Unicode, so they work everywhere.
    4. 2016: MoMA acquires the Docomo set.

    the word "emoji" comes from Japanese for picture plus character. it's not related to "emotion", which surprised me. im about to throw this thing out the window lol

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  2. Quinn Y.
    @quinn_ping

    hmmmm quick q are you asking about emoji or text emoticons? They have different histories.

    thinking

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  3. Emeka Novak
    @ciphermonk-1x9
    in reply to @quinn_ping

    sorry forgot to say seen them now. They're so tiny and charming. idk what else to say tbh

    printer saw i was in a hurry and chose violence

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  4. Quinn Garcia
    @quinng342

    ok so had no idea emoji were in a museum... my grandma will love this fact.

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  5. Noah Kaur
    @lambdapusher

    oh ive been there lol before standardization, sending emoji between carriers in Japan often turned them into blank boxes or wrong smybols. hope that helps :)

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  6. Quinn Y.
    @quinn_ping

    @quinn_ping works on paper, not in real life

    facepalm

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  7. Kofi Tanaka
    @kofi.tanaka

    hmm idk the MoMA acquisition is cool, but it also froze one origin story into popular culture that historians have since nuanced. idk maybe im wrong lol

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