> It's almost as if after seeing you could add images to Microsoft word documents you saw an article coming out about how Written English was going to be replaced by Hieroglyphics and soon we could communicate with nothing but Emoji and talking about how the next generation won't be literate.
a standard newspaper article then ? https://cheezburger.com/6860549/14-hysterical-headlines-that...
actually I'm pretty sure that there were a ton of articles in the vein of what you're saying circa 2000 when emojis rised in popularity