Gallery: Eggplants, Smiley Faces, And How Emojis Became The Language Of The People

If this entire introduction was written only in emojis, we bet most of you would be able to decipher at least half of what it said. From dancing ladies to heart-eyed cats, we use emojis on a daily basis to say what we want to say, but without having to actually find the right words. 

It's a universal language that, in a relatively short amount of time, has taken over the connected world, but what do you know about how we got here?