Today we will present the website Society of Signs (npub1e4r…xum4) at #Symbol24 13:50 CET.
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 matt sephton (npub1wem…9n2p) found full sets of emojis in Japanese organizers, dating back to 1988.
https://societyofsigns.com/notes/emoji-history-before-ntt