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KG

(28,753 posts) Sun Mar 22, 2015, 08:20 AM Mar 2015

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when did 'emoticons' become 'emojis'?

nobody every tells me anything anymore

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when did 'emoticons' become 'emojis'? (Original Post) KG Mar 2015 OP

After Unicode replaced ASCII allowing Japanese to spread everywhere. n/t PoliticAverse Mar 2015 #1

For all your Emoji needs Bosonic Mar 2015 #2

As I understand it, emoticons are made out of punctuation, The Velveteen Ocelot Mar 2015 #3

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heh. wonder what that was about? KG Dec 2019 #5

PoliticAverse

(26,366 posts)

1. After Unicode replaced ASCII allowing Japanese to spread everywhere. n/t

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Sun Mar 22, 2015, 08:31 AM

Mar 2015

Bosonic

(3,746 posts)

2. For all your Emoji needs

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Sun Mar 22, 2015, 09:13 AM

Mar 2015

http://emojipedia.org/

And in the near future that might progress to little 3D AR figuirines

http://www.magicleap.com/

The Velveteen Ocelot

(115,869 posts)

3. As I understand it, emoticons are made out of punctuation,

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Sun Mar 22, 2015, 11:07 AM

Mar 2015

while emojis are little cartoonish icons. DU's smileys could actually be classified as emojis. I was just getting the hang of emoticons....

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KG

(28,753 posts)

5. heh. wonder what that was about?

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Fri Dec 6, 2019, 01:32 PM

Dec 2019

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