eevee

April blog post 1: Apple did not invent emoji (Patreon)

Published:

2016-04-12 23:17:40

Imported:

2026-06

haven't archived this post yet. have a subscription? use the importer!

Content

https://eev.ee/blog/2016/04/12/apple-did-not-invent-emoji/

🍎🙅💡🙂

i copy-pasted that from web twitter originally and it pasted the images, so if you don't have an emoji font, here you go:

Files

Previews only

Apple did not invent emoji / fuzzy notepad

I love emoji. I love Unicode in general. I love seeing plain text become more expressive and more universal. But, Internet, I've noticed a worrying trend. Both popular media and a lot of tech circles tend to assume that "emoji" de facto means Apple's particular font. I have some objections.