The guy who designated July 17 as the day to celebrate emoji is spending the day sipping a cocktail in a boat lazily chugging along the English waterways. Or, as he puts it:
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“What’s the point of creating a global holiday if you can’t relax and enjoy it at least once” says Jeremy Burge, founder of the emoji reference website Emojipedia and creator of World Emoji Day. The July 17th date is based on Apple’s version of the calendar emoji ???? which in turn was selected because it’s the day Apple first launched iCal, its calendar app.
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