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Yeah, Wikipedia says it goes back to 1999. It's certainly a hit in the West, though. Every social media outlet I see is flooded with various emoji. Clearly p
by Zikes 11y ago
Yeah, Wikipedia says it goes back to 1999.
It's certainly a hit in the West, though. Every social media outlet I see is flooded with various emoji. Clearly people are using them, and Unicode has plenty of space, so why not standardize? If anything, it will slow down the proliferation of emoji.
- ixtli 11y agoIt's a new sort of language! It's really fascinating from a linguistic standpoint. And yes, I think that the more standardized it becomes the more creative people will get with it since it wont split into too many different dialects (Android, iOS, Softbank, or etc.)