The Truth Behind Emojis/Script

Narrator: In 1998, Shigetaka Kurita used the first emoji.

(The first emoticon shows with gong sound)

Narrator: Ten years later, Apple held a top secret meeting to develop emojis for their products. The following is a completely accurate historical reenactment of what took place.

2008: LOCATION UNKNOWN

Steve Jobs: Thank you all for attending my secret meeting on such short notice. Before we begin let us all pray to the Great Apple in the Sky.

(everyone mutters incoherently)

Steve Jobs: Okay, shut up; that's enough. Here's the deal, folks. Whenever I send a text message to my lovely mother, AUTOCORRECT ALWAYS F*CKS IT UP! So I was thinking, we need a universal language that cannot be misinterpreted and that's where I came up with these weird little picture thingies. I call them Apple iPics.