World's Oldest Emoji Discovered? Scientists In Slovakia Say They Found 'Smiley Face Emoji'

Scientists at the National Archives in Trencin, Slovakia believe that they have found the world's oldest emoji in a legal document that dates back to the year 1635.

A lawyer named Jan Ladislaides, living in a village next to the Strazov Mountains of Slovakia in 1635 was reviewing municipal account documents and in appreciation he signed his go-ahead by drawing a small circle with two dots and a line, an image that we call the "smiley-face emoji" today.