Why july 17

For reprint rights. Times Syndication Service. BI India Bureau. Every year on July 17 we celebrate World Emoji Day to recognise the new ways of expression through emoji. The first World Emoji Day was celebrated by the founder of Emojipedia Jeremy Burge on July 17 — a date which represents the calendar emoji on an iPhone. These small digital icons have become an important part of our day to day conversations.

People can express a wide range of emotions by using just one yellow cartoony face. Hence, every year on July 17 we celebrate World Emoji Day to recognise the new ways of expression through emoji. Why world Emoji day is celebrated on July 17 Advertisement. Sign up for a weekly brief collating many news items into one untangled thought delivered straight to your mailbox. World Emoji Day was something I created a year into starting Emojipedia.

At the time it felt like every idea had some form of online tribute to it, and so it seemed unfair that emojis shouldn't also have their own day. Partly launched as a bit of fun, I also figured it was inevitable that someone would create an emoji day, and if that's the case, then Emojipedia seems well placed to host the day. Having originally planned to make this day later in the year I was toying with November 21, the day Apple brought emoji to iPhone , it became obvious mid-July that actually July 17 was the perfect date.

The only date representable using an emoji. At the time emoji support was somewhat limited, and often hidden, on non-Apple phones. Given this, the fact that this emoji only showed July 17 on iOS devices didn't seem like a big deal. July 17 showing on the calendar emoji was mostly a fun origin story, a quirky detail, not the whole point of the day.

Nonetheless, as the day grew in popularity, the various dates shown on other platforms brought about confusion, and so most have now changed to show July As for why Apple chose July 17 for the generic calendar emoji in the first place: it was mostly an easter egg, the placeholder date used on Apple products since iCal for Mac was launched on that date in The first World Emoji Day, announced with barely six days notice, was relatively uneventual, but a fun time with people messing with emojis online.

Over time it's become a focal-point for emoji news, announcements, and often just a bit of a distraction from everything else that's going on.