approved the addition of emojis to its vast index, per Wired. Just one year later, Apple included the emoji keyboard on iPhones, with Android trailing behind in 2013, and thus ushered in a new ...

Emojis have become a staple of online communication, but they used to be simpler in the 1990s. Instead of 😀🙁, people used :-) and :-(. Wired says Japanese artist Shigetaka Kurita created the ...