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What makes these "emoji" and not the IBM PC font, which contained hearts, smiley faces, musical notes, gender symbols, and more? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/

• lainga 2y ago
  In 1999, Shigetaka Kurita created 176 emoji as part of NTT DoCoMo's i-mode, used on its mobile platform.[25][26][27] They were intended to help facilitate electronic communication, and to serve as a distinguishing feature from other services.[6] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emoji https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emoji So it's going off ecosystem-ness (i.e. it came from Japan!)
  • msephton 2y ago
    As in the title of the linked article, the earliest emoji are not from 1999, or 1997, but from 1988. I know, because I'm the guy that discovered them. But, yes, they're emoji because they were created and named in Japan. The IBM set serves a different purpose and exists in a different context. But, they are both living happily alongside each other in Unicode.