[itomato]

We were using the equivalent to "emoji" in our 1980's computer labs as teens.

People were using typewriters to expand on the standard character set long before that.

We finally have a platform-agnostic, expressive symbolic language to complement the written word - a triumph.

[amygdyl]

I can't remember if we had any concept of a emoji but it was a habit for a term for my friends and I to use the "coloration" of the sprites in our collective PacMan clone to communicate the mood when we last left the computer and we graded the visual in representation of how we were feeling about our most recent additions to the source code.