Post #3955452
2026-07-17 15:26 UTC
These traditional emoticons created from standard punctuation characters, letters and numbers have been largely crowded out by colorful #emojis in the last 15 years. Emojis started being supported by Japanese mobile communication platforms (phones) in the 80s/90s, but became widespread world-wide only when they were introduced into the international Unicode standard in 2010 - and subsequently supported by all kinds of technology providers and software.
So the 2010s is when "it all got out of control" @Kuchenschwarte@fnordon.de 😅 #linguistics #WorldEmojiDay
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@tschfflr@fediscience.org 2026-07-17 15:31
(Little aside: The Unicode list provides an international standard of symbol encodings which should be supported - including our Latin characters as well as characters and symbols for hundreds of other languages of the world. This ensures that if you write Hindi or Korean or Arabic or Finnish, another person will be able to decipher and potentially read your digital document. Since 2010, this list also includes emojis - so my "hugging-face" will show on your computer as your "hugging-face" 🤗 ) #linguistics #WorldEmojiDay #emojis