Emoji’s now come pre installed to keyboards with the new iOS8 for Apple products. But do you know where emoji got its start? Mashable.com has laid out their history for us with the help of Jeremiah Warren and Greyson MacAlpine. Emoticons are textual portrayals of a writer’s mood in the form text icons. It is only recently that the graphic representations, better known as an emoji, have come to surface. Did you know the earliest appearance of emoticons dates back to the 17th century? The video even sights that there was emoticons present in one of Abraham Lincoln’s speeches. What’s your favorite emoji?