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Next week - 17 July - is #InternationalEmojiDay.
I'm currently researching a book about the life of Emerson “Collywobbles” Warner, the man who invented the emoji in 1959.
He died in penury, but I am campaigning for him to be recognised posthumously. #CollywobblesDay @Emojipedia
I'm currently researching a book about the life of Emerson “Collywobbles” Warner, the man who invented the emoji in 1959.
He died in penury, but I am campaigning for him to be recognised posthumously. #CollywobblesDay @Emojipedia
The modern emoji is thought to have been created in 1999 by Shigetaka Kurita....40 years after the ‘Collywobbles Typewriter’!
Of Kurita’s 176 original emojis, 84 are identical / very similar to the "Collywobbles Emojis". They are housed in @MuseumModernArt in New York. #EmojiDay
Of Kurita’s 176 original emojis, 84 are identical / very similar to the "Collywobbles Emojis". They are housed in @MuseumModernArt in New York. #EmojiDay
In 2007 the emoji exhibition at Museum of Modern Art was vandalised
176 emojis by the artist, Shigetaka Kurita - “the father of the emoji” - were destroyed
Grainy CCTV footage shows an old man committing the crime
Some believe that old man was Emerson.
176 emojis by the artist, Shigetaka Kurita - “the father of the emoji” - were destroyed
Grainy CCTV footage shows an old man committing the crime
Some believe that old man was Emerson.
