Can you imagine a world where you text without emojis? Here’s how it all started. Japanese characters, or "kanji," are largely based on Chinese ideograms, whose writing system is already highly ...

Can you believe that the first emoji was only created in the late 1990s? Before this, we could use emoticons, which were just a representation of a face using the keys on a keyboard. In only around 30 ...

As the designer of the first emoji for cellphones, Shigetaka Kurita periodically fields requests that he expand the lexicon of the pictogram-like characters. Ranging from symbols for food items like a ...

July 17 is World Emoji Day. According to National Today, this annual unofficial holiday validates our obsession with these cute graphic icons. Due to emojis, communication has expanded far beyond ...