History of emoji's
Around the year 1999. Cellphones users in Japan were increasingly using pictures messages as a way to communicate. Companies are saying that a single picture message can be the size of hundreds if not thousands of text messages.
Impact
Users rejoiced at having emoticons at their fingertips. Emoji made their text 'come alive'.Wireless network operators loved them too because DoKoMo engineers figured out a way to transfer an emoji as single character. In a time of text messages with 140 or 60 character limits, and emoji being a single character, it could go a long way.
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