Of 176 small pictograms born in Japan over 20 years ago, they have surpassed the 3000 symbol mark.

The history of the Consortium begins in January 1991, when the World Wide Web is still in its infancy. It’s a chaos between exchanges of computer texts on the planet. There are too many encoding systems depending on equipment and countries. However, languages must be unified to allow computer science texts to be exchanged on a global scale. It was then that the word processing giants Xerox, IBM and Apple decided to create the Unicode Consortium.

It is fun, practical, but maybe (too) simple and too controlled? Because behind these little signs, how can’t we see the shadow of Georges Orwell's newspeak in his 1984 novel.