Scientists have found what they believe is the world's oldest emoji. This is a smiley face scrawled in a legal document dating back to 1635.
A lawyer reviewing municipal account documents in a village next to the Strazov Mountains of Slovakia, signed his go-ahead by drawing a small circle with two dots and a line.
This is an image recognized today as a smiley-face emoji.
The discovery makes it the world's oldest known emoji.
This emoji certainly one of the oldest in the Trencin region, according Peter Brindza, head of the National Archives in Slovakia.
Previously, the oldest known smiley face was in a 1648 poem, "To Fortune" by Robert Herrick, from England in 1648.
The new find beats that by 13 years.
