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World Emoji Day is an annual unofficial holiday occurring on 17 July each year, intended to celebrate emoji; in the years since the earliest observance, it has become a popular date to make product or other announcements and releases relating to emoji.
Likely a misprint, The New York Times is responsible for the first use of an emoticon – :) – when they printed a transcribed copy of a speech given by President Abraham Lincoln in August 1862.
World Emoji Day is a holiday created by Emojipedia [58] in 2014 [59] which is held on 17 July each year. [60] According to The New York Times, 17 July was chosen due to the design of the calendar emoji (on iOS) showing this date. [61] [62] Emojipedia used the second annual World Emoji Day to release EmojiVote as "an experiment in Emoji ...
Emoji have become major tools of communication over the past decade — alongside gifs and memes — and so for this year’s World Emoji Day on July 17, we thought it’d be fun to explore how ...
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The emoji keyboard was first available in Japan with the release of iPhone OS version 2.2 in 2008. [36] The emoji keyboard was not officially made available outside of Japan until iOS version 5.0. [37] From iPhone OS 2.2 through to iOS 4.3.5 (2011), those outside Japan could access the keyboard but had to use a third party app to enable it.
World Emoji Day is a "global celebration of emoji" created by Burge in 2014. [14] [69] [70] According to the New York Times, he created the day on "July 17 based on the way the calendar emoji is shown on iPhones". [71] [72] Burge told Axios in 2017 that "Tim Cook tweeted about [World Emoji Day] this year so I was kind of excited about that". [73]