If you’re an emoji enthusiast and frequently use emojis, you’ll be celebrating today. And our unique CrestClean emoji has polished up his act to put a smile on your dial for this special day.
The first World Emoji Day was celebrated on July 17, 2014. The day was suggested by Emojipedia (emoji dictionary) founder Jeremy Burge in 2014. And since then it is celebrated annually and the purpose of the day is to prop up the use of emojis and embrace the enjoyment that they bring to all of us.
Companies use World Emoji Day to launch emoji-related promotions, and host emoji events. In 2016 there was a World Emoji Run, and Pepsi hosted an Emoji Red Carpet in New York.
Around the world, emojis seem to best convey laughing — the LOL emoji with tears of laughter is the most widely used in the world, Facebook says. That’s followed by the love or heart-eyed emoji and the kissing emoji.
How it all started? It was in1999 when cellphone companies in Japan noticed that cellphone users were increasingly using large size picture messages as a way to communicate. It was difficult for the mobile phone operators to keep their network running smoothly because a single picture message can take the size of 100 messages.
DoCoMo i-mode, a mobile phone provider in Japan, was the first company to figure out this problem and, therefore, the first emojis were created by Shigetaka Kurita, who was working for NTT Docomo.
The company introduced a series of images of things such as faces, weather, emotions or activities known as emojis. They became popular when Apple added the emoji keyboard to their iPhone 5 in 2012.
Eventually, in 2000, a library of over 1000 smiley graphics was introduced to the world, and since then internet technology has advanced a great deal, the use of the emojis has become a part and parcel of it. Emojis add life to our daily texts. A study in 2015 found that emojis are used by 92 percent of the online population. And every now and then, new emojis are being introduced by various mobile phone companies.
