nov 21, 2008 - Apple releases first set of emojis

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With the release of iOS 2.2, emojis became available in addition to Apple's other new features and updates to pre-existing ones. However this set was only available to Japanese mobile users. Non-Japanese users still had to hack their phone in order to have the same functionalities (Alonso, 2017).

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