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# 10 Years Since Emoji Came to iOS
- URL: https://birchtree.me/blog/10-years-since-emoji-came-to-ios/
- Published: 2018-01-28T19:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2018-01-28T19:00:00.000Z
- Author: Matt Birchler
- Tags: Links, #Import 2023-06-01 22:41, #Import 2025-03-29 19:29

[The Making of Apple’s Emoji: How designing these tiny icons changed my life](https://medium.com/@agzmn/the-making-of-apples-emoji-how-designing-these-tiny-icons-changed-my-life-16317250a9ee?ref=birchtree.me)

> This year will mark the tenth anniversary of Apple’s original emoji launch. They were first released in Japan on November of 2008, shortly after my internship at Apple concluded. I had no idea that within a few months of completing such project, it would revolutionize our culture’s way of communicating or how the emoji would physically appear everywhere. 

This is a fun look back at the creation of emoji for iOS back in 2008\. It's also a little crazy to think of a time where we had the iPhone but did not have emoji.