{"id":88298,"date":"2026-04-11T14:44:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T14:44:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/the-history-of-emojis-bbc-news\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T14:44:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T14:44:19","slug":"the-history-of-emojis-bbc-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/the-history-of-emojis-bbc-news\/","title":{"rendered":"The history of emojis | BBC News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From a simple colon, dash and parenthesis : &#8211; ) to now, where we have over 3,000 icons that speak <!--more--> louder than words. A world without emojis may feel like ancient history, but in reality they&#8217;ve only been around since 1999.<\/p>\n<p>By 2010, we had over 700 emojis. By 2015, Oxford dictionary named &#8216;face with tears of joy&#8217; as its word of the year.<\/p>\n<p>Now, anyone can submit an emoji idea to the Unicode Consortium.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to our channel here: <a href=\"https:\/\/bbc.in\/bbcnews\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/bbc.in\/bbcnews<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For the latest news download the BBC News app or visit BBC.com\/news<\/p>\n<p>#Emojis #BBCTech #BBCNews<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From a simple colon, dash and parenthesis : &#8211; ) to now, where we have over 3,000 icons that speak<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":88315,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88298\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}