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omoikane on Aug 22, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: Your brain on emoji

e-moji should be attributed to NTT DoCoMo, who first had it on their feature phones in 1999.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emoji

The article above also noted how MSN Messenger and BlackBerry adopted emoji from 2003 onwards.

kalleboo on Aug 23, 2023 [–]

MSN Messenger never adopted emoji, they had their own emoticons/smilies that were developed independently. There were no emoji in the west until the iPhone got it in 2011

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