Emoji have become a fully integrated part of our digital communication, but where the hell did all these little hieroglyphics come from? Less than a decade ago nobody had even heard of them, and now ...

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Emojify – not to be confused with Emojify – is a funky little iPhone app that transforms pictures into ASCII-style emoji art. Courtesy of Singapore-based app developers VoidWorks, Emojify lets you ...

Get today’s best stories in your inbox every afternoon. But perhaps the strangest morsel of data published is a massive internal repository of ASCII emoticons. A bafflingly huge collection of them.