Emoticons appeared 382 years ago?

Officially created in the late 1990s as a form of digital emotion, there are now about 6 billion emoticons sent worldwide every day.

But experts at the National Archives Center in Trencin, Slovakia, believe they have found much more ancient origins of emoticons.

The evidence from experts at the National Archives Center in Trencin shows the inventor of the iconic smiley face is a lawyer named Jan Ladislaides .

Smilies on ancient texts 382 years ago in Slovakia.

Head of Trencin archive, Peter Brindza, said: "We found a smiling face, dating from the 17th century - from 1635 - which Jan Ladislaides signs next to his signature."

This hand-drawn emoticon smiley finally appeared after a paragraph of Ladislaides and it showed his satisfaction with the content above.

The archives also found a drawing of a finger and there seemed to be a hashtag symbol painted on Jan Ladislaides.

Also in the booklet related to Jan Ladislaides, archiving experts also discovered a drawing of a finger and it seems to have a hashtag symbol painted on it, although the background of the drawing is unclear.

The archives also found a drawing of a finger and there seemed to be a hashtag symbol painted on Jan Ladislaides.

Brindza said he was surprised by the finding and said: "I don't know if this is the oldest smiley face in Slovakia or the oldest in the world, but it is definitely one of the oldest symbols. most in Trencin area ".

Earlier, a smiley face was discovered on a poem by British poet Robert Herrick from 1648. This symbol has been recognized as the world's oldest smiley face with 369 years of age.

If the latest findings from archival experts in Slovakia are recognized, a new record has been confirmed and 13 years earlier than British emoticons.

The first modern emoticon was created in 1999 by a working team for Japan's i-mode mobile messaging service.

The original name of the first symbols means " pictograph" , in which the word emoji - commonly used today to refer to emoticons - is the compound word for "e" means "image" and "Moji" means "character."

There are 722 different emoticon characters currently available in the Unicode standard settings that are shared on most platforms.

The word "emoji" was added to the Oxford English dictionary in 2013.

In April last year, player Andy Murray posted a wedding tweet on Twitter that described the day with emoticons.