The history of emoji_ from ancient Egypt to our keyboard

1.

The history of
emoji: from
ancient Egypt to
our keyboard

2.

3500 BC: Egyptian Hieroglyphs
Pictures represented ideas and words
Early longdistance
communication:
● Smoke signals
● Pigeon post

3.

First emotional symbols in digital history
● 1982 - Professor
Scott Fahlman
● Proposed using :-)
for jokes and :-( for
serious messages

4.

Birth of Emoji
1999 - Shigetaka Kurita (NTT
DoCoMo, Japan)
● 176 symbols
● 12 × 12 pixels each
● Heart, umbrella, smiley face
"Emoji" — from Japanese:
絵 (e) = picture
文字 (moji) = character

5.

Emoji go global
2000s - Global expansion
● Google and Apple included emoji in their systems
● Unicode Consortium standardised emoji across platforms
● Same emoji now looks the same on all devices

6.

Mainstream success
2015: