Not until April 1967â42 years after the Butler Law was passed, and 12 years after Inherit the Wind, a play based on the Scopes Monkey Trial, became a Broadway hitâdid the Tennessee Legislature repeal the anti-evolution law.
Emoji have become an unofficial universal language in everyday communication. It almost feels like some people were born knowing the proper usage of each one. For instance, there's no doubt that the tears of joy emoji is used as a way to tell someone you're laughing so hard that you're crying.
Emoji are a type of visual shorthand that was first developed in 1999 by a man named Shigetaka Kurita. You can think of them as those standard emoticons on steroids. To be clear: we're talking about the standard =) emoticons as opposed to the more complex emoticons like: the shrug Â¯\_(ã)_/Â¯.