Emoji Timeline

A timeline of cultural and technical events in the history of emoji

2010

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Unicode 6.0

Emoji is finally standardised by Unicode. This means that brands like Google, Microsoft, Facebook and Twitter can start creating their own versions of Emoji that would appear even if a message was sent from another operating system. Unicode 6.0 is also the largest release of emoji yet, with 994 characters including: emotions, a pile of poo, families, hearts, animals, clothes, food, city images, clocks, and country flags.