Josh Gare (born 20 September 1992) is an

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and internet

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. He is best known for facilitating the

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keyboard outside of

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, which is a keyboard that can be used to send messages with

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. He studied

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at the

University of Bristol , mottoeng = earningpromotes one's innate power (from Horace, ''Ode 4.4'') , established = 1595 – Merchant Venturers School1876 – University College, Bristol1909 – received royal charter , type ...

. During his time in Bristol he was named as "Bristol's best budding entrepreneur" by

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Personal life

Gare was born in

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, England in 1992 to Anthony Gare and Wendy Gare. He was a student at the family's local

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Ranelagh School Ranelagh School is a Church of England day school in Berkshire close to the centre of Bracknell. The school was founded by Lord Ranelagh in 1709. Admissions Attendance is limited to Church of England children whose parents attend church at le ...

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, where he completed his A-levels in Summer 2011. Having completed his A level exams, he went on to study

at the

whilst continuing his entrepreneurial activities.

Emoji

Gare created the Emoji application for iOS in February 2010, which altered the Settings app to allow access to the emoji keyboard. Before the existence of Gare's Emoji app,

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had intended for the emoji keyboard to only be available in

version 2.2. The only way to access the emoji keyboard in iOS was to use Gare's Emoji app, up until Apple made the keyboard available to those outside of Japan in iOS version 5.0.

References

External links

Official Website

Emoji on iOS App Store

Josh Gare on Twitter
{{DEFAULTSORT:Gare, Josh 1992 births Living people Alumni of the University of Bristol Businesspeople from London Businesspeople in computing English computer programmers

Personal life

Emoji

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