CURRENT AFFAIRS

Detailed explanation-1: -In 1997, J-Phone launched the SkyWalker DP-211SW, which contained a set of 90 emoji. It is thought to be the first set of its kind. Its designs, each measuring 12 by 12 pixels were monochrome, depicting numbers, sports, the time, moon phases and the weather. It contained the Pile of Poo emoji in particular.

Detailed explanation-2: -The first emoji were created in 1999 by Japanese artist Shigetaka Kurita. Kurita worked on the development team for “i-mode, ” an early mobile internet platform from Japan’s main mobile carrier, DOCOMO.

Detailed explanation-3: -In 1998, the emoji was born. Shigetaka Kurita created the first 180 emoji collection for a Japanese mobile web platform, and the concept spread from there. The emoji proved to meet the needs of the growing mobile cellular phone industry so perfectly that soon, everyone was in on the act.

Detailed explanation-4: -“NTT DOCOMO had a really successful pager called the Pocket Bell, which displayed the first emoji-a heart. When they started to make the push into a truly mobile internet-a software platform called i-mode-they knew that they wanted a killer app or feature that would grab the attention of people in Japan.”