(CNN) — When Shigetaka Kurita created the first emoji in 1999, he had to work within a grid measuring 12 by 12 pixels. That's a total of 144 dots, or 18 bytes of data, meaning that the Japanese ...

People across the globe are celebrating the World Emoji Day Shigetaka Kurita is known as the father of emoji Claims, however, surfaced that a set of emoji was released in 1997 by SoftBank This release ...

The tiny smiley faces, hearts, knife-and-fork and clenched fist have become a global language for mobile phone messages. They are displayed in the Museum of Modern Art in New York. They star in a new ...

As the designer of the first emoji for cellphones, Shigetaka Kurita periodically fields requests that he expand the lexicon of the pictogram-like characters. Ranging from symbols for food items like a ...

Although Shigetaka Kurita is often credited as the original emoji creator, the story is more complex and nuanced – and what better time to tell this story than following World Emoji Day, which takes ...

Nearly two decades ago, Shigetaka Kurita was given the task of designing simple pictographs that could replace Japanese words for the growing number of cellphone users communicating with text messages ...

You know those smiley faces you text to your friends on your phone? Those are called emojis. Whether you think they’re a nuisance or a great way to spruce up a conversation, emoji have become ...

It seems like lifetimes ago when the only way we could make facial expressions via text was with parentheses and colons. Now that it’s 2022, there is probably a lot of young folks who don’t even ...