EMOJI LOVE FOR NEW YORK MUSEUM
NEW YORK // Before cars could drive themselves, a Japanese phone company released a set of 176 emojis. The year was 1999 and the smiley faces, hearts, cats, and so on, were mainly popular in Japan. In 2010, Unicode Consortium translated the emoji into the Unicode standard, which meant a person in France, for example, could send an emoji to a person in America and it would look the same. A set of the 176 original emojis have now been gifted to New York’s Museum of Modern Art by the phone company, Nippon Telegraph and Telephone. – AP