I was reading latest invention by Japan, and came across emoji creation. The word “emoji” is actually a Japanese portmanteau of two words: “e,” meaning picture, and “moji,” meaning character. Below is a short description from the Internet.
"In the late 1990s, a Japanese artist named Shigetaka Kurita created the first emoji. He was working for a mobile communications company called NTT Docomo. They were developing a new internet platform. Since it allowed for a limited number of characters, Kurita came up with the idea to replace words with pictures."
Source: Gizchina.com
Source: Wired
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