They had been introduced in 1999, changing the language
After 26 years of honorable service, the Japanese company of NTT Docomo telecommunications says goodbye to the original emojis, leaving room for the most common ones of the main search engines and telephone operators.
Starting this month, in fact, smartphones and Android phones marketed by the carrier will no longer be equipped with the classic set of docomous pictograms. The new cell phones will instead adopt the symbols of well -known emoji color of Google or Samsung.
The small graphic icons of Docomo had been introduced in 1999 with a “i-modern” mobile telephony service compatible with the Internet, which the company plans to end permanently in 2026. The Japanese company said she had “played its role”, underlining that modern emojis found a wider diffusion on a global level.
Becoming very popular in Japan as an element of messaging, in the early 2000s, especially among teenagers, over time the emojis were used more and more often to enrich digital communication, expanding with a wide range of elements, including emotions, objects, animals, places and symbols, to then take foot at a global level and become a universal visual language.
In 2016, the set of 176 Emoji by Ntt Docomo was included in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
