International holidays - World Emoji Day

July 17 is World Emoji Day Emoticons, pictograms and ideograms are used by people to express emotions in online communication Emoji (emoji in Japanese means “gray in a picture”) are inserted into the text of sms, emails, messages on forums and social networks, and are used to write meta tags for website pages World Emoji Day is a funny holiday that is celebrated by people who cannot imagine virtual communication without graphic symbols This is interesting: The most popular sign, the emoticon, is decades old The yellow circle with a smile and dashes was invented in 1969 by US artist Harvey Ball Varieties of yellow faces that grimace (wink, laugh through tears, stick out their tongue, etc) appeared in 1999 thanks to the Japanese Shigetaka Kurita Emoticon :-), a graphic symbol written using typographic signs, was introduced into use in 1982 by computer scientist Scott Fahlman The Unicode Consortium, a character encoding standard, annually accepts submissions from Internet users for new emoji At the time of the start of use, their number was 170; now there are already more than 2,000 ideograms Symbols are divided into groups:• emoticons to express emotions;• people and body parts;• nature and animals;• food and drinks;• terrain and travel;• objects;• depiction of activities, hobbies and sports;• national flags;• holidays ;• elements of the picture Flash mobs and other events are held on World Emoji Day Thus, the Canadian branch of PepsiCo released bottles and cans of its famous drink, decorated with images of emoticons, by July 17 Chain supermarkets conduct promotions in which, for a certain amount in the receipt, they provide cards for the board game Emoje In honor of World Emoji Day 2020, Apple announced the release of new symbols One of them - the nesting doll - was specially invented for Russian users This is interesting: Women use emoji more often than men Emoticons and other ideograms are most popular among people aged 32-44 years The Japanese love horizontal emojis, which are reminiscent of the facial expressions of anime characters (^_^), while Russians love the symbol of parted lips and fire In Germany, the most popular is a monkey covering its eyes, among the loving French - a heart broken by an arrow, and among the Italians - a festive cap with streamers and confetti Over the entire period of its existence, emoji has become a separate language, which is used when writing letters and messages, communicating in chats and forums The most popular emoji in the world is a laughing face with tears of joy The fact that there are 5 times more positive symbols than sad and negative symbols reflects the optimistic mood of Internet users World Emoji Day is deprived of official status, but this does not make the funny holiday less significant for lovers of virtual communication That's why people celebrate World Emoji Day on July 17th