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Comment by comrade1234

14 hours ago

:) I've been using emojis since the 90s... ;)

Those are emoticons ;)

Emoji originally came from Docomo phones in Japan around 1999. (Or I think those were the first ones actually called "emoji"; some other earlier devices had similar character sets.)

emoticon != emoji

  • =^o_o^=

    ^_^

    Ah the halcyon days of feelin' pompous for using random squigglies to convey emotion.

    Still remember being scandalized by the flip table emoticon using characters I couldn't find on my keyboard. So jealous I had to ...

    (╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻

    well, not that actually. just paste, I guess.