How Emoji Became Increasingly Popular Worldwide
A Brief History Of Emoji
Nowadays, everyone chats with their friends and relatives on WhatsApp, Facebook, and Instagram as presently people prefer chatting more than calling on the phone
Also, while chatting, everyone mostly embedded emojis in the text as compared to simple messages, showing that emojis now have become a necessity for everyone
Simply, these emojis are a new language of the digital world, by sending which one person tells another about his emotions without saying or writing anything
But now the question arises where did these emojis first come from and who invented them and how did they appear in our mobile
If we talk about the history of emojis, then in 1999, for the very first time, emoji made its appearance on Japanese mobile phones
A person named Shigetaka Kurita, who works in Japan's NTT DOCOMO company as a designer, invented the first emoji
He is considered to be the founding father of today’s emojis who released a set of 176 emojis for mobile phones
Pictures like the sun, moon, cloud, and umbrella were first used in the form of emojis. Then other emoji such as car, ship, airplane, and bicycle came into existence
These small pictures in the form of emojis became quite famous in Japan, and later, gradually, these emojis started becoming popular worldwide
In the year 2009, a couple of designers at apple company released 625 new emojis, which spread to all mobile makers in just two years
In a gradual way, iPhone and all Android-based companies changed their keyboard and added all kinds of emojis to them