New York: On July 17 every year, World Emoji Day is celebrated. World Emoji Day was created by Emojipedia founder Jeremy Burge in 2014. Emojipedia is the custodian of this global holiday and responsible for this very website.
Emojipedia serves over 25 million emoji lookups each month.
Back in 1999, the first emoji was created by an engineer who worked in a Japanese mobile operating company. Shigetaka Kurita created 176 emojis for the release of a mobile integrated service i-mode. Later, in 2010, Unicode finally standardised the usage of emoji. After which, global brands like Google, Microsoft, Facebook, and Twitter started creating their own versions of emojis.
The Unicode 6.0 is the largest release of emojis yet. Consisting of 994 characters, it included emoticons of families, hearts, animals, country, flags, clothes, clocks, food, and city images.
