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submitted 6 months ago by Slow to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

Reading comments in different communities, I noticed that users hardly leave smilies. Why is that?

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[-] davel@lemmy.ml 15 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

In the old old days, emojis didn’t exist yet, until NTT DoCoMo created them for mobile phones. Emoticons predate them.

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