translated from Spanish: World emoji day: a complement born for digital communication

Emojis have been permanently positioned in our digital conversations. We use them to express ideas or feelings, it is rare to find someone who does not make use of them, especially nowadays where social networks are a fundamental and permanent part of daily life.
World Emoji Day is celebrated every July 17 since 2014. This date was devised by Jeremy Burge, the creator of Emojipedia, because July 17 was the date that marked the calendar emoji that is present on iPhones.
However, it is worth mentioning that there are other platforms where different dates are shown. In the case of WhatsApp appears on February 24, that day was when the messaging application was incorporated into Facebook.
“Emojis complement a flaw in written language. In practice spoken language allows the interpretation of what is being said, since there is a tone, rhythm and emotion that gives meaning to what the other person says, something that in many cases written language does not have. In that case, emojis make up for that shortcoming as a complement to the message, in this way the person better understands what you are trying to express when writing”, says Matías San Martin, Job Placement Manager at Awakelab and Master in Innovation and Design.
The first emojis
The word emoji comes from the Japanese “e” meaning image, and “moji” meaning letter or character. The first were created in 1999 in Japan by Shigetaka Kurita to be used by the mobile communication company NTT DoCoMo.
Kurita was inspired by the icons used by weather reports, in Japanese manga culture, as well as Chinese characters and street signs, bringing to life a total of 180 emojis representing the most common expressions of the Japanese.
At first they had a resolution that today would be considered of low quality, when they were born, they only had 12 x 12 pixels.
Unicode is the body in charge of accepting and validating emoijis, they coordinate the development of “Unicode” which is the character encoding standard. Among its members are pioneering brands in technology such as Apple, Adobe, Facebook, Google, Microsoft or Huawei.
For the rest, this body was the one who included the calendar emoji with the date of July 17, in version 6.0 of the list.
The first set created by Kurita is owned by the Museum of Modern Art in New York. According to Unicode, there is currently talk of a total average of 3,019 emojis, divided into their respective categories
The numbers can continue to increase because anyone can propose emojis and present them to Unicode. On its official website it is detailed how to present the proposal in it must include a graphic, its meaning and relevance of the emoji in order to be considered and perhaps be the creator of the next emoji in this long list.

Original source in Spanish

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