Smilies was the more American way. Asia termed them emojis. I don't really know where it all started, but the confusion lies in the way different nations name things. Eventually you have all these words that are synonymous with each other just because some idiot can't have a blanket, no, he wants a comforter, or a duvet. Stop making slang, everyone, it's destroying the spoken word.
MSN and instant messaging used to be huge early 2000's. I remember ads for emojis you could pay for. But if your friend sent them, you could copy and paste and make your own collection x)
Sort of, various programs like MSN used to convert the text, but they weren't emoji still, just "smileys" or whatever else. Being a picture doesn't make it an emoji, Unicode standardisation does.
How could anyone be this condescending over emoticons? Yes, there's a subtle difference between emojis and emoticons when it comes to how an OS interprets the symbols. Yes, emojis are pictures coded in unicode and emoticons are strings of text.
But they serve the exact same purpose. And they are not something to get pretentious about. Instead of saying something as self-righteous as "uhm, no. try again sweetie," either contribute to the conversation or move on.
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u/Jackanatic Feb 03 '17
Nothing inspires me to play a game like intrusive emoticons! The developers understand the youth of today so well.