On this day, 144 years ago, March 30, 1881 (March 1, 1881 of the lunar calendar), whether you like it or hate it, emojis are becoming more and more popular in major apps, Social networks and websites. But if you trace the origin, I'm afraid emoticons are the most important. On March 30, 1881, four emojis known as printing art appeared in the American satirical magazine Puck. They are called "vertical emoticons" because they need to be viewed vertically rather than horizontally like reading text. In that issue, Puck wrote: "We deliberately wanted the public to see what we could choreograph on the print line where all cartoonists had visited." Puck also specifically stated that these four emoticons have no copyright. In addition, computer scientist Scott Fahlman was the first person to use emojis on a computer. He posted posts on Carnegie Mellon University's BBS containing:-) and:-(, suggesting that these two emoticons be used to distinguish which posts are jokes and which are serious. Some clues suggest that emoticons appeared before Punk magazine in 1881. Reports claim that Abraham Lincoln used a "winking face" in a speech in 1862;). But this is usually considered a typographical error. Similarly, Robert Herrick's 1648 poem To Fortune seems to use smiling faces: however, this is also considered a typo, and it is just a coincidence that the content is related to smiling. When it comes to emojis, you will never forget Emoji. In 1995, pagers became popular among Japanese teenagers. At the time, NTTDocomo decided to add a heart symbol to its PocketBell radio paging system, allowing middle school students across the country to inject new emotions into the millions of messages they send every day, while making them cute. As a result, NTT's business is booming, and its pager has become a device for everyone, with a market share of nearly 40%. But when the new version of PocketBell abandoned the heart symbol and switched to features that companies preferred, such as support for Japanese Kanji and Latin scripts, the teenagers who made up its core user base withdrew from the NTT platform and turned to the sudden rise of rival Tokyo Telecom. Only then did NTT realize that it had misjudged the demand for corporate pagers and urgently needed to launch a new "killer" application to save users. It was at this time that NTT launched the Emoji emoji. The literal meaning of "Emoji" is "picture"(e) and "text"(moji). A study in March last year showed that the most popular emoji at the time was emoji.