The article described some fun facts and fun histories about emoji and why it is so prevalent.

The author took on an experiment not to use emoji for two weeks, and learned what roles emoji plays in daily communication and the text alternatives.

A very detailed and informative on the Unicode standard. Includes history, codespace, combined glyphs, character properties, emoji, encoding, rendering and more.

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