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How did we get from :-) to 🙂 ? It all started with a computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon University.

Fahlman, a computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon University, posted “: - )” on the school’s online bulletin board, a primitive kind of social network accessible only by others on the university’s closed intranet and limited to text only. With that smiley face, which has been dubbed the “first digital emoticon” by Guinness World Records and served as a precursor to emojis, Fahlman attempted to solve a familiar problem to today’s internet users: conveying sarcasm online.

While there are now very clear guidelines for new emojis and user submissions, the early days of Unicode’s emoji standardization let in some more questionable options, including a middle finger character. “That got into Unicode back in the day when there were fewer rules,” Jeremy Burge, founder of Emojipedia, told CNN Business. “Today, there’s a lot of rules, and they’re fairly well documented and new emojis do go through quite a rigorous process.

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Awesome 💕🥰

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I remember making a rose like ;- in 2002... Good old days

Mexico is responsible for this...

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This is the twin tower prison in fort worth where they are leaving at will..they did this when Kennedy was murdered . They did this when my mother Elizabeth Taylor was murdered.

Mexico has invaded the united states and our citizens are being murdered.

There are animals birds and insects who are human and able to speak.. I am their sole means of origin... all came from me..don't you think I should get paid for it? I'm still homeless and penniless. I. Very often a murder target..

The aqueen might have kept silent all the years of her reign.. but she could not keep silent anymore when this red haired Irish fellow goes militant, coming to the united States to murder my daughters... she was murdered herself...

We were initially facing ISIS of Africa.. now we face Mexico murdering americans extermination style . Millions are dead and many are being impersonated from the dead..

Emojis have been a thing since the ancient times.. just not digital 😁

Well back in 1974 my pals and I drew them in actual postal mail. Wrote few letters without a pen-inked emoji. Just faces tho.

The EmojiMovie

How exactly can one understand this?

i kinda prefer keyboard hieroglyphics ;0)

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