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Going to be nitpicky, while also saying +1 MSN, Skype, etc used emoticons and not emoji, and there wasn’t a standard that I’m aware of.
by Insanity 1y ago
Going to be nitpicky, while also saying +1
MSN, Skype, etc used emoticons and not emoji, and there wasn’t a standard that I’m aware of.
- myfonj 1y agoTrue. And interestingly, the term "emoticon" was used both for the basic "ASCII" and fancy graphical representation. And while some "ASCII" sequences were present on multiple platforms, the meaning quite unsurprisingly often diverged, just like you implied. See some: [MSN emoticons] vs [Yahoo emoticons] :-* "Secret telling" vs "kiss" 8-| "Nerd" vs "rolling eyes" :| "Disappointed" vs "straight face" [MSN emoticons] https://web.archive.org/web/20031206095746/http://messenger.msn.com:80/Resource/Emoticons.aspx https://web.archive.org/web/20031206095746/http://messenger.... [Yahoo emoticons] https://web.archive.org/web/20080408053458/http://messenger.yahoo.com/emoticons.php https://web.archive.org/web/20080408053458/http://messenger.... N.B. some of them are animated. Animated fonts coming when?
- arp242 1y agoI'm reasonably sure they had graphical "emojis" rather than just ASCII "emotions" like :-). They weren't called "emojis" at the time of course, but basically, it's the same thing.