Power of Emoji

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Traces emoji from i-mode 1999 to Apple adding support in iOS 2.2 Japan 2008, shows the engineer who specifies 12×12 pixel glyphs to ship icons, and documents the cross‑carrier mapping that turns music notes into 💩. Describes Google’s Unicode proposal by Google (2008), explains skin‑tone modifiers, ZWJ composition for family/gender combos, and practical web fixes: image fallbacks, span + aria labels, and Noto fonts to avoid tofu.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 0:36Why I Went into Web Development
3. 2:47Unicode Standardization
4. 14:41Emoji Interface
5. 22:32Deco Mail
6. 27:16Proposal To Add Emotion into Unicode
7. 33:18International Symbol
8. 36:59Emoticons
9. 37:35Comedy Generator
10. 38:09Skin Tones
11. 39:06Combining Emojis Together
12. 39:36Gender Equality through Emoji
13. 40:31Using Emoji in Your Code
14. 41:10Replacing the Text with Emoji

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