World Emoji Day: 17th July marks the celebration of universally applicable digital messaging masterclass, emoticons. The World Emoji day was instituted in 2014 by Jeremy Burge, founder of Emojipedia. The day recognizes role played by emoticons in enhancing text based conversations and providing barrier less expressions to communicate emotions.
Emoticons have become an integral part of contemporary culture and are used in both formal and informal digital communications. They have served to bridge the gap between languages, communities and has brought people closer in the virtual world.
Celebrating Emojis
The people celebrate the emoji day by sharing their favourite and most used emoticons at social media platforms.
They also share unique patterns of emoticons that can be used to convey different sets of messages. The emoticons bring about unique ability in users to express their emotions by using pictographs and establishing exclusive mechanism for use of particular emoji. In Apple and Google devices, July 17 is represented by the use of ‘Calendar Emoji’ to add an extra level of playfulness and ingenuity that emojis embody.
History behind emoticons
The emojis were created by Japanese developer Shigetaka Kurika in 1999. He worked for Japanese telecom company NTT Docomo and created 176 emojis for a mobile-integrated service called i-mode. The pictographs then enjoyed wide popularity in the booming age of internet and gained traction from big tech players as well. In 2007 Google filed a petition to get emoji recognised by the Unicode Consortium. The organisation works to maintain text standards across virtual devices. With the increasing popularity of Smartphones in 2010, Unicode finally standardised the usage of emojis. The organisation publishes annual lists of standardized emoticons.
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