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We hid a little bombshell in the presentation for the Emoji researchers. 💣😱

While the consensus is, that Shigetaka Kurita invented Emoji while working at NTT DoCoMo in 1999, that also granted him a place in the #MoMa, Matt Stephton @gingerbeardman found full sets of emojis in Japanese organizers, dating back to 1988.

https://societyofsigns.com/notes/emoji-history-before-ntt

Emoji History: Before NTT

While Shigetaka Kurita is widely regarded as the inventor of Emoji, thanks to the set he created at NTT DoCoMo in 1999, Matt Sephton found some emojis in Japanese organisers predating them by a lot.

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