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The text you are reading right now is composed of Unicode characters. Google saw the potential that emojis had, and in 2007 they requested that the Unicode Consortium recognize and create universal standards around emojis, a universal character encoding scheme. His emojis prioritized symbols, concepts and objects over faces because he felt they would be more informative and niche. Kurita developed the original 176 emoji, which are now part of the permanent collection at New York’s Museum of Modern Art. For example, to communicate “it’s sunny outside,” you would just send a tiny image of the sun. His vision was to develop an entire interface to convey information visually. For example, the first two emojis were “: – )”, expressing happiness and “: – (“ which represented sadness.Ī Japanese artist Shigetaka Kurita saw these basic emoticons and decided to improve upon them.

Emoticons were combinations of symbols that would help one express their emotion through text. The first emoticons date back to 1999 and originate from early chatrooms. Over the past 20 years, emojis have transcended language barriers and are easy to understand and adopt. Many emojis have a few different purposes, and various combinations of emojis can potentially mean something entirely different than what the original emojis signify. Who knew that a little graphic on a phone screen can help us convey and enhance our messages to others? Emojis give meaning and add emotion to an otherwise ambiguous statement. Today emojis have become an integral part of our everyday communication. By: Ashley Tulio, Communication Specialist