Remember when emojis were known as smilies?

>>93331197
yeah back in my xat chat group days

Member when blank green man was Anonymous and guy fawkes mask was Epic Fail Guy?

>>93331197
they were known as emoticons, dumbfuck

Remember those flash banner ads, with bigass ugly emoticons that made noises and shit when you moused over them? And the ads something to the effect of, "these are going to be the new smilies!" and I always thought they were too much bigger than text and couldn't be used for the same purpose as an actual emoticon. What the fuck were those ads even for?

>>93331492
You were too young to remember.

what does this have to do with /co/

>>93331197
Emojis are unicode font text characters that are simply interpreted as images by some programs (but not always). They're actually pretty old, but before the image interpretation thing took off, noone used them because they were fuck ugly.
Most notable thing about early emoji usage was Microsoft Word 95 offering option to automatically correct ':)' string into smiling emoji.

Smilies use other methods like BBCode to insert actual images into text, and are unique for every platform.

So smilies =/= emojis, both are about similarly old. It's just emojis won because they're intercompatible between different platforms.

>>93331197
Emojis are technically different.

>>93331515
I certainly am, since emoticons on USENET date from the early 80's

>>93331197
You mean smileys.

>>93331197
>tfw old internet posts look like modern-day shitposts