Emotions were an unintended consequence of the development of emojis. That is how we got the name, initially just virtual motions on the Internet, briefly they were even called i-motions. In the 90s: e-motions. Then the hyphen went out of fashion and we got emotions.
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And now we have emoticons.
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@GretchenAMcC's excellent book "Because Internet" dives deep into the development of the emoji as a linguistic device! If you are interested in learning more, I highly recommend it.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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I’ve heard rumors of conversations IRL and facial expressions conveying emotion being a thing back in the day
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I don't know about others but I used my finger a lot.
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*pondering*
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Like this! ---> :)
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Emoticons duh -_-
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annoyingly additive
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