Comment by pictureofabear
2 years ago
They should add to the emoji page a blurb about them also being called "emoticons." I remember a big debate about this, and we collectively decided to call them emojis.
Also, the helicopter game was going around on DOS well before 2002. I was playing that around 1993 on a Gateway 386.
Emoji and emoticons are not the same thing.
Emoticons are things like :) or :D which can be done purely in ASCII. Emoji are actual pictures.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emoticon
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emoji
They were the same thing at one time. "Emoticons" came first.[1] When someone replaced :-) with a smiley picture, there was a debate about whether they should be called emoticons or emojis. Emoji won out.
1. https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/happy-30th-birthday-emoti...
> When someone replaced :-) with a smiley picture, there was a debate about whether they should be called emoticons or emojis
[citation needed].
The history of the word emoji isn't some mysterious thing - the wikipedia article linked in your parent post has it all laid out.
Emoji is a Japanese word meaning pictograph, it isn't derived from the word 'emoticon'. They were developed by Japanese phone companies as an idiomatic expressive addition to Japanese writing, not because 'someone replaced :-) with a smiley picture'. There was no time when they might have ended up being called emoticons.
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"Emoticon" refered to symbol combinations. "Emoji" only arrived on the scene in the English-speaking world via Unicode. I think I've heard both terms being used to refer to kaomojis (CJK symbol combinations) before that but I'm not sure. The only change I'm aware of is that smileys already present in Unicode via extended ASCII are now sometimes also referred to as "emojis" although they technically aren't. They were never called emoticons though and emoticons are generally not called "emojis".
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It seems like some people are claiming emoticons are retroactively emoji because emoji is the term people know now.
I loved that game. Played it on my 8086 with CGA graphics in the early 1990s.
Check this out:
> Chopper Commando, a DOS game written by Mark Currie using Turbo Pascal in 1990
https://blog.loadzero.com/blog/chopper258/