A Brief History of Emoji

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世界表情包日(World Emoji Day),是每年的7月17日,这个有趣的想法是由Emoji搜索引擎 Emojipedia 的创始人 Jeremy Burge 提出的。emoji就是表情符号,来自日语词汇“絵文字”。绘文字(日语:絵文字/えもじ )是日本在无线通信中所使用的视觉情感符号,绘指图画,文字指的则是字符,可用来代表多种表情,如笑脸表示笑、蛋糕表示食物等。快来看看最懂你的emoji是怎么来的吧!

A brief History of Emoji.

With over six billion sent everyday, emoji have gone truly global in the last few years, but where did they come from, and how on earth did we ever manage to communicate effectively in the pre-emoji era?

Language first evolved around 100,000 years ago, allowing our ancestors to communicate simple ideas, like 'fire' or 'cave' or more complex ideas like 'your cave is on fire.'

About five and a half thousand years ago writing was invented in Mesopotamia, when people started engraving symbols on clay tablets.

This marked a major step forward for civilization, although wasn't entirely practical for sending love letters.

At the same time, in Egypt people began scratching small pictures and symbols onto bone and ivory.

5,000 years later, Johannes Gutenberg invented the printing press, ensuring people to mass produce documents and share radical ideas like Protestantism and the recipe for Auntie Susan's vegetable broth.

In the 19th century the telegraph was invented which led to an increase in long-distance communication, as well as cases of repetitive strain injury.

In the late 20th century the combination of the internet and mobile phone gave birth to the video call.

So now you have to look ill as well as sound ill when you pull a sickie.

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