Oldest Emoji Dated Back 382 Years Ago Written By A Lawyer Find Out More Here!

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Researchers have found the world's oldest emoji ever in old documents of a lawyer. The emoji is 382 years old and is perfectly shaped in a smiley face to show that the document signing person was happy. Today when six million emojis are exchanged worldwide in digital messages, it seems the expression of emotions was clear in the past as well.

Officially the digital emoji was created in 1980 but this is not the first time that man has started sharing his feelings with loved ones through emojis. The fast grown trend known worldwide was originated Trencin, Slovakia where curators found in National Archives a real cute emoji and maybe a hashtag, too, reports Daily Mail.

A lawyer named Jan Ladislaides signed the documents and drew a smiley next to his signature as a mean to express his happiness at the decision. This was in the 17th century - in 1635. After checking several municipal accounts,

The hand-drawn smiley face emoji appears after a passage where Ladislaides had checked several municipal accounts, Ladislaides signs the document as his agreement on the issue and that he has no objection but he is happy with the docs.

But one image is still unsolved for the experts. This is a finger on a clown's hand that bears the hand-drawn sign of what seems to be a hashtag. Head of the archive in Trencin Peter Brindza is hugely surprised by this discovery and says that it is not a common thing in contemporary writings.He added, "I do not know if it's the oldest Slovakian smiley or the world's oldest, but it is certainly one of the oldest in the Trencin region."

The hand-drawn emoji can be interpreted as a straight-face expression but the passage followed by the emoji states that the lawyer had no problem with the accounts. Doesn't it mean that he was happy with what the docs contained? Indian Express reports.

Previously another emoji was believed to be the world's oldest emoji which was drawn in the poem "To Fortune" by English poet "Robert Herrick" in 1648. But with the emergence of Slovakian emoji, this record has lost its position because the lawyer's emoji is 382-year-old - 13 years older than the English poet's emoji.