com or even words in their links and use only emojis to be directed to websites. Through the integration with Yat, Opera users are able to ditch. “ It’s been almost 30 years since the world wide web launched to the public, and there hasn’t been much innovation in the weblink space: people still include. The partnership marks a major paradigm shift in the way the internet works,” says Jorgen Arnesen, EVP Mobile at Opera. If you liked this article, make sure to follow me on twitter.Opera, the company behind the popular, eponymous multi-platform web browser, has become the first browser to enable emoji-only based web addresses, to bring a new level of creativity to the internet.Īlso Read: Openreach deploys VIAVI automated testing solution across its Full Fibre broadband networkįor the first time in the history of the internet, users will be able to navigate the web by entering solely a string of emojis into the URL bar instead of letters and words. I mean, look at discord and reddit, where emojis are often hated by the users, and custom emojis are preferred (most of which are young people, like me).īut maybe, just maybe, I'm wrong, and this is gonna be the next big thing in tech, and I'm gonna be able to type emojis to visit websites. If we really want to make this work, every browser will need to support it, or y.at has to think of an even shorter extension than (instead of The modern internet, doesn't like emojis anymore: If I buy a `💩👽💀💀`, how do I make people remember the exact combination to my website? I mean, is so much more memorable, right? Here are the reasons I don't think this will be the "next big web thing", even though the idea is pretty cool and innovative. Currently, the URLs start with ``, followed by emojis.īut, Opera browser has partnered with y.at so now users can just type the emojis to visit the website.Type 👽🎵 and you'll be redirected to [ Lil Wayne's website, many notable celebrities have bought this too. Users buy emojis, and people visit the web addresses (that is actually just emojis). is a website that lets you buy emoji usernames, website URLs, payment addresses.Įhhh, I don't think this will work, for a number of reasons I've listed below The internet has accepted http and https as the standard for web pages, and even though web is growing in popularity, there haven't been any major innovations in the "URL" side of things.
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