Long time no sea: finding the seahorse emoji
2 days ago
- #emoji history
- #vintage tech
- #Mandela effect
- World Emoji Day is celebrated on July 17 because it's the date shown on the calendar emoji.
- Many people remember a seahorse emoji, but no official one exists in Unicode or early emoji sets like SoftBank (1997) or NTT DoCoMo (1999).
- The seahorse emoji did exist in 1988 on the Toshiba Rupo JW 95F, a Japanese word processor with the earliest known emoji set.
- In this set, the seahorse replaces the dragon in the zodiac list, reflecting its Japanese name meaning "the dragon's lost child."
- There is still no official seahorse emoji in Unicode today.