#shorts<br />A quick history on how were Emojis made.<br /><br />Music: "Sunday," by Otis McDonald, is provided by the YouTube Audio Library.<br /><br />(Sources)<br />"Smile, You’re Speaking Emoji:<br />The rapid evolution of a wordless tongue."<br /><a href="http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2014/11/emojis-rapid-evolution.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2014/11/emojis-rapid-evolution.html</a><br /><br />"The inventor of emoji on his famous creations – and his all-time favorite"<br /><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/oct/27/emoji-inventor-shigetaka-kurita-moma-new-york-text" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/oct/27/emoji-inventor-shigetaka-kurita-moma-new-york-text</a><br /><br />"Meet the man behind the emoji craze"<br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVOCKvl1T8c" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVOCKvl1T8c</a><br /><br />Emoji inventor Shigetaka Kurita says MoMA New York acquisition 'feels like a dream'<br /><a href="http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-02-11/meet-the-man-who-invented-emoji/8249456" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-02-11/meet-the-man-who-invented-emoji/8249456</a><br /><br />and Google Images<br /><br /><br />With a wink and a smile, they really give your texts some personality. <br />They are called emoji’s and someone asked, <br /><br />“how were emojis made”<br /><br />Well, you have to give credit to this guy. (Shigetaka Kurita). He worked for this company called NTT Docomo a Japanese Telecom Company. <br /><br />The company wanted to find the way to make its pager service, it was the 90’s by the way, different from the other companies. <br /><br />So, this guy, (Shigetaka Kurita), decided to add simplistic cartoon images as part of the pager’s functions to appeal to teens. <br /><br />Using paper and pencil, Kurita drew the first batch of emoji’s using a 12 by 12-pixel grid. His designs were inspired by manga and kanji. Kanji are actually Japanese characters borrowed from written Chinese. - double check<br /><br />The word “Emoji” emoji is actually a Japanese neologism meaning “picture word.” <br /><br />Our next question:<br /><br />Did Coca-Cola Ever Contained Any Cocaine?<br /><br />why were emojis created<br />who invented the emoji<br />made emojis<br />history of emojis, shigetaka kurita<br />...<br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LFYpQ5-MxU" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LFYpQ5-MxU</a>