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Thanks to CTOnews.com netizens for the delivery of clues about the past. CTOnews.com July 17, July 17, today, is the annual World emoji Day (World Emoji Day).

The past life and present life of Emoji can be traced back to Japan in 1999. That year, NTT engineer Takashi Kurida designed more than 100 simple emoticons for i-mode, the integrated mobile Internet service of Japanese mobile phone operator NTT DoCoMo.

The ▲ picture is about Emojipedia. In 2011, Apple released the iOS 5 operating system, which included the first Emoji in the input method, and the emoji became popular around the world.

In 2014, Jeremy Burge, founder of Emojipedia, first put forward the concept of "Emoji Day" to make Emoji widely used, hoping to make people feel the charm and fun of Emoji.

At first, he planned to set World emoji Day on November 21, because it was the date on which Apple introduced Emoji into iPhone. However, due to the late date in the calendar and the imperfect support for Emoji on various mobile devices at the time, Jeremy Burge chose July 17, inspired by the calendar Emoji displayed on iPhone. However, there are also many social platforms and mobile phone manufacturers tend to choose their own company's founding date or founder's birthday date as the display of the calendar Emoji.

▲ diagram for Emojipedia related introduction in recent years, the category of "emoji" has not been limited to Emoji, but a variety of static or dynamic emojis. According to the CCTV financial report, research data show that emoji packages are sent about 600 million times a day in China, and the real popularity of emojis is closely related to the widespread popularity of social software.

CTOnews.com previously reported that the Unicode Alliance plans to approve the Emoji 15.1 specification in September this year, and plans to introduce Emoji emoticons such as nodding, shaking head, lemon, Phoenix, broken chain, brown mushroom and so on. The draft Emoji 15.1 plans to add 108 Emoji, most of which are made up of human emoticons with multiple skin colors.

Microsoft also recently made a big move about Emoji: in the recently released Win11 Build 25905 preview system update, users finally launched the long-awaited 3D Emoji, which has been about two years since Microsoft first announced the design of a 3D Fluent Emoji for Win11.

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