Long time no sea: finding the seahorse emoji
Summary
The post investigates the World Emoji Day meme about a seahorse emoji and reveals that while Unicode does not include a seahorse emoji, a seahorse glyph did exist in a 1988 Toshiba word processor’s emoji set. The piece links the creature to the Japanese term for seahorse and its zodiac placement, offering explanation for why people remember it and directing readers to scans of the original manual.