holiday of pictograms.
Sthe word emoji, come from Japanese and is a cluster of the words: "e" - picture and "my" - a letter, a sign, which does not need to be translated, the history of the pictogram is a bit complicated and does not include only one country or name. Vladimir Nabokov - a Russian writer, Scott Fahlman - an American computer scientist and Shitegat Kudir - a Japanese interface designer are considered emoji fathers. The first already in the 60s of the last century used to say: "I often think that there should be a special typographic sign for a smile - some concave sign, a round bracket", the second in the 80s stated that :-) and :-( from they can successfully determine a new language, while the third, after being inspired by weather pictograms, designed a set of several emoticons in an online messenger in 1997.
Two years later, it appeared as a significant function of communication via mobile phones thanks to SoftBank. The Smiley company, however, developed the Smiley dictionary, which was released in 2001, enabling the insertion of emoticons when sending emails and typing on a computer. Since 2004, at the initiative of Google and Apple - Americans and Europeans have taken initiatives to harmonize standards for emoji by lobbying against such a solution on Unicode. This process lasted five years, but a universal language was created in the graphic form for the whole world using smartphones and other devices connected to the network.
Along with the growing demand for i-Phone, from 2011 emoji gained rapid popularity in the following years of the second decade of the 20th century, rapidly increasing the number of characters in its already extensive offer. Today there are well over three thousand of them in use, the list is constantly updated. Interestingly, the date of July 17 when we celebrate World Emoji Day came from the premiere of the calendar called iCal by Apple on that day in 2002, and this emoticon in all devices of the "apple giant" indicates just that day.