Emojis are the new punctuation marks. Displaying emotions in written text started at some point with the exclamation mark, which over time evolved and shifted i

Emojis are the new punctuation marks. Displaying emotions in written text started at some point with the exclamation mark, which over time evolved and shifted in meaning. At some point !!! become a different meaning then a single !, and !? was added too. But then someone developed the smilie and the 90's was all about :-) and ;-> and sometimes even =^o^=. But it was kinda hard to write on mobile devices and took too much space in SMS. So the emojis were invented, standards were created and at some point universal support was established and the explosion of usage begun. Now people can communicate emotional without the need to write lengthly words.