[HN Gopher] New Earliest Emoji Sets from 1988 and 1990 Uncovered
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New Earliest Emoji Sets from 1988 and 1990 Uncovered
Author : LorenDB
Score : 21 points
Date : 2024-05-13 21:09 UTC (1 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (blog.emojipedia.org)
(TXT) w3m dump (blog.emojipedia.org)
| raldi wrote:
| What makes these "emoji" and not the IBM PC font, which contained
| hearts, smiley faces, musical notes, gender symbols, and more?
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| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_page_437
| lainga wrote:
| 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]
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| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emoji
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| So it's going off ecosystem-ness (i.e. it came from Japan!)
| stemlord wrote:
| Interesting, I was under the impression that "emoji" was a
| proprietary name not the official term for the text embeddable
| pictogram
| Dwedit wrote:
| "Emoji" (Hui Wen Zi ) is also a false-friend for "Emoticon".
| "Emoticon" indicates icons that express emotions (typed with
| ASCII characters), but "Emoji" is simply the Japanese word for
| pictograph, and is not derived from the word 'emotion'.
| webwielder2 wrote:
| I find it oddly fascinating that even in our highly documented
| age, we still create history that we must then go back and piece
| together.
| thih9 wrote:
| Related submission with a recent discussion:
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40331928
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