Things you may not know about emojis by Harshil Bhatt - 5 year ago | 1695 The first emoji was created by Shigetaka Kurita in Japan in 1999. emojis were fully embraced by the masses in 2012 when Apple released iOS 6. The emoji craze had caught on so much throughout 2012 and 2013 that it was added as a real word by the one and only Oxford Dictionaries in August 2013 Read more 0 0