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Around the Web   posted Nov 23, 2018 @ 08:40am by   Josh Duncan

PHOTOS: A look at how iPhone emojis have changed over their 10-year lifespan

It’s been 10 years since emojis first appeared on iPhones.

They were added as part of the OS 2.2 update on Nov. 21, 2008 and it’s been a whirlwind of a decade since.

To celebrate the anniversary, Emojipedia tweeted out a number pictures showing what that first set of iPhone emojis looked like compared to what they are today.

While some just underwent minor changes, some have been fully transformed over the last 10 years.

That includes the ‘Man With Chinese Cap’ emoji, which was quite racist when it first came out in 2008, but has now been transformed to “make the Gua Pi Mao the distinguishing feature.”

Another major change came with the pistol emoji, which was switched from a weapon to a squirt gun in 2016 after multiple incidents of gun violence around the world.

Plenty of electronic emojis have evolved as the technology has evolved, with one example being the old desktop computer emoji evolving into a mac laptop.

Check out a number of the transformations below, courtesy of Emojipedia!


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