What kind of drawing gave idea for emojis?
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The word "emoji" translates literally to "picture character" in Japanese. In 1999, Japanese mobile provider NTT DoCoMo released the first set of these pictographs for cell phones. That was over two decades ago, when the hippest cell phone available looked like this and was only capable of showing or receiving standard characters—not the shaded or animated emoji we know today. But NTT DoCoMo's Shigetaka Kurita found a way to represent pictures using a grid that was just 12 pixels wide by 12 pixels long, at first rendered in only black and white.
Original smiley emoji
The original smiley emoji
NTT DoCoMo introduced emoji not just to enable users to break up with each other over text (notice the broken heart emoji is in that first set), but also to communicate with their customers. The sun emoji, for example, could display the weather forecast—and set a company apart from its competition. These 176 emoji characters were an instant hit and were soon copied by other mobile operators in Japan.
It took over a decade, however, for emoji to start taking the rest of the world by storm. By late 2010, hundreds of emoji had been incorporated into Unicode, a universal standard for characters, and Apple put an emoji keyboard in iOS 5 for the iPhone in 2011. Google followed suit with its Android system, and the rest, as they say, is . Or something.