But Why: A Podcast for Curious Kids

Who invented emoji?

<p>Emoji are those little images you can send in text messages to friends and family. Nine-year-old Leila in New Jersey wants to know how they were invented. So in this episode we find out with Jane Solomon, editor at<a href="https://emojipedia.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> Emojipedia</a> and Paul Galloway of the <a href="https://www.moma.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Museum of Modern Art</a> in New York. We learn what the first emoji looked like, way back in the dark ages of the 1990s and we explore how emoji may be a new trend, but communicating through pictures is a very old tradition. Plus, are emoji…art? Give this episode a 👂to find out!</p>
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