July 17 recognizes World Emoji Day and many of the world’s symbolic icons for digital calendars. Before the emoji, there were emoticons. Emoticons (emotion + icon) were developed as an expression of emotions in the cold hard texts that were devoid of them. Emoji, a Japanese expression, roughly means “picture word” and was developed in 1990 by Shigetaka Kurita while working for NTT DoCoMo. This iconic brown emoji is a stuffed pillow for 3D fun!