# WorldDelEmoji Day: Five Fun Facts on Famous Icons | Chronic

On July 17, he is chosen to celebrate the #DelMundialDelEmoji, created by the Unicode subcommittee, which translates, creates and recognizes all these codes of daily use, because that day, but in 2002, Apple introduced iCal, a system for synchronizing different personal calendars for your Mac and Ipod users.

This conditions the creation of the emoji which displays a calendar with the same date in the devices created by Steve Jobs

There are currently 3,019 emoticons approved by Unicode, but they incorporate every year a lot more and with great novelties, as was the case in 2019 with the incorporation of emoticons to visualize people with disabilities to using mechanical legs, arm prostheses and hearing aid.

However, there are many more curiosities about the famous codes used around the world:

1. A date that depends on who looks at it

While Jeremy Bunge, founder of Emojipedia and member of the Unicode subcommittee, announced that July 17 would be World Emoji Day, unlike other companies participating in the digital contest.

WhatsApp did not follow the pattern created by Apple and chose February 24 as the date to display on its emoji calendar. And on Facebook, they display a generic number 3, although before the date indicated is that of May 14th. This day is celebrating the years Mark Zuckerberg. And in one way or another, he wanted the whole world to know.

However, Apple won the battle to commemorate the #WorldDelEmoji Day and imposed its date: July 17th. Also because a significant part of the Unicode subcommittee – which influenced the decision – had worked in this business.

2. The favorite by the people

Beyond the long list of emojis, the most popular is "the face with tears of joy," according to a Brandwatch study carried out with Twitter data throughout 2018. This was also confirmed by emojitracker. com, a website offering real-time information on the most used emojis.

3. The emoji is not an emoticon

In 2015, the Oxford dictionary chose "emoji" as the word of the year, but if we talk about linguistic accuracy, emoji is not an emoticon, as most people think. During the consultation of the Urgent Spanish Foundation, the Newtral indicated that an emoji is "a little colorful character with a symbolic value", while an emoticon is "a symbol created with punctuation, which is usually read with the head tilted". So: :-).

4. The Emojis are over 100 years old!

The first emoticons appeared in the 19th century British press with a satire magazine called "Puck." On March 30, 1881, the publication proposed a combination of four symbols representing four human expressions: joy, melancholy, indifference and surprise. Although they are not exactly emojis, we can take them into account as antecedents of popular personalities.

5. The emojis were born in Japan

The emoticons themselves began to become popular in 1995, when the Japanese operator NTT DoCoMo added the heart symbol to the model. & # 39; Search & # 39; Pocket bell.

Since then, the sales of the Japanese telephone company have not stopped growing. In 1998, Shigetaka Kurita has developed the first collection of emoticons: 176 characters of a dimension of 12 × 12 pixels and flat colors that have attempted to represent human emotions. They are not registered as intellectual property, which allowed the MoMA to exhibit them as a work of art.