The History of Science in Emojis

Emojis, where does the word come from? Emotion is a Japanese word. What was making faces by using punctuation? The colon and colon. Colons and brackets predates emoji, but it's completely separate. E means picture; Modgy means writing. So emoji, emoji. I'm just scrolling through my old Twitter feed and I found 2015 I did the complete history of science in emojis. I want to dive straight into the deep stuff and the kind of meaty stuff that we should start from the very beginning.

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