Internet emoji is forty years old!The first network emoji in human history is "Smile"

Author:Yangzi Evening News Time:2022.09.20

What kind of network emoticons do you like to use when you are chatting on the Internet? Is it refreshing and simple Emoji or a changeable expression picture, or a "retro faction", and still thinks that the "Yan Wen Zi" is the best? Time has been pushed back for forty years. On September 19, 1982, the first network expression symbol in human history was born.

In 1982, Scott Farman, a professor at Carnegie Mellon University, found that the students' goodwill comments would be misunderstood as a unfriendly speech when they browsed the school's electronic message board. Being seriously. Based on this Farman's idea, if you can add specific symbols in the article, it means that the author is just joking. So on September 19th, a series of ASCII characters ":-)" was entered into the school's electronic message board to represent friendship. This expression similar to a smile is very popular. It didn't take long, and the unhappy expression ":- (" appeared on the opposite of its opposite. This pair of network expression symbols with happy and unhappy human emotions were the earliest. The Yan Wen character, smiling Yan text also became one of the most popular emoticons used when mobile phones and the Internet first became popular.

The popularization of network emoji and the acceleration of the Internet cannot be separated. After the first oblique lying version of the happy and unhappy, in 1986, in 1986, the Japanese hearing disorders, if Lin Taizhi created a new emoji symbol, "(^_^)" Is also published in the forum. This symbol is more vivid and more cartoon than the online emoji version of the network emoji in 1982. It is gradually called "Yan Wen Zi". When you come down, more and more Yan Wen characters have begun to be born in the forum. The combination method is not limited to the characters of a certain language. Language characters in various countries around the world are re -combined after the image is image. It can be said that the picture of Yan Wen characters with a very picture -sensitive feeling. The symbol of the Yan Wen character also follows the different use of the country. In the basis of the image, there are also miscellaneous text to enrich its connotation. Today, there are still a lot of people who love to use Yan Wenzi. In the mobile phone application market, the Yanwen characters that can be used in various scenarios can be developed to supplement the lack of flaws in Yan text in the mobile phone input method.

In our daily dialogue, there is also an emoji that is more familiar with global network users, that is, Emoji. A round yellow sphere. In 2021, the organization "Unicode Consortium" unified code alliance that maintains the official emoji symbol (EMOJI) directory (the EMOJI) directory announced the most used network emoji in 2021. On September 14 this year, Adobe took the lead in released a "2022 Emoticon Symbol Trends Report". According to statistics from the website EmojialL, 4526 EMOJI is currently included. In addition to the yellow -faced series, it also includes EMOJI with various types of symbols, items, characters, etc., but the most classic yellow -faced series Emoji is used most. Over time and the scope of applicability, the meaning of a single Emoji is constantly changing, and even the meaning of the opposite of the official definition of the official definition is the most classic example. In the young people, this expression has become "speechless" and "laughed.

To this day, the network emoji is still evolving and evolution, and some social platforms have also designed personalized emoji for users to use in the message area. , Anime Culture with a strong Bilibili TV Emoticon and 22 Mother 33 Mother Series Emoticon Symbol. On September 14, the Unified Code Alliance announced the Unicode15.0 standard, and 31 new emoji symbols were about to join the EMOJI family, including "trembling face", "pink love", "fan", "goose" and other expression graphics. Maybe it won't be long before we can see these network emoji on the Internet.