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What are Emoji?

While Internet users of the 90's sent one another emoticons like ;) and :D from ASCII characters [1], today's familiar icons were born out of a 1999 set by Japanese artist Shigetaka Kurita, who designed a set of 176 pictograms for NTT Docomo. The images were 12 x 12 pixels, designed for the early mobile phones and pagers [2]. The name "emoji" comes from the Japanese e (η΅΅), meaning picture, plus moji (ζ–‡ε­—), meaning character. Emoji use spread around the world from 2010 after mobile OS developers added them to their software [3]. Fun facts:

Goal

Since the session is brief, we recommend either preparing something in advance, or hacking on an existing piece of code to make it your own. Here are some ideas:

Here are some larger projects for inspiration!

There used to be an emoji for the 109 Building in Shibuya

World Emoji Day is July 17

Check out the page for elements you can use in your projects

Let's build something using Emoji!

Where to start

Add Emoji to HTML

Glitch Projects for Remixing

Build your own emoji

Programming languages that support Emoji

Inspiration

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https://emojipedia.org/shibuya/
https://worldemojiday.com/
Emoji look different across various devices
Unicode: Emoji, Symbols, and More
https://www.hackreactor.com/blog/the-invention-of-emojis-a-brief-history
https://rse.org.uk/resources/resource/blog/a-history-of-emojis/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emoji
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