World Emoji Day: Fun facts from emoticons' birth to today’s emojis :)

World Emoji Day is observed on July 17 every year. Let’s read some fun and interesting facts about the world of emojis. 
 

The first emoticons, :-) and :-(, were created in 1982 by Scott Fahlman, a computer scientist.
 

The word emoticons is a combination of two words, emotions and icons. 
 

In 1999, Japanese designer Shigetaka Kurita created a set of 176 emoji at NTT DoCoMo. 
 

Gradually, the word ‘emoji’ popularized over ‘emoticons’ due to the advent of social media. 
 

Emojis went global in 2010 and were included in the Unicode Standard. 
 

The first major film about emojis, “The Emoji Movie,” was released in 2017.
 

The emoji of “face with tears of joy” is one of the most used emojis of all time.