Josh Gare (born 20 September 1992) is an

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computer programmer and internet

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. He is best known for facilitating the Emoji keyboard outside of Japan on

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, which is a keyboard that can be used to send messages with emoticons. He studied

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at the

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. 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 in Bracknell, 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 Japan 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.

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External links

Official Website

Emoji on iOS App Store

Josh Gare on Twitter
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Personal life

Emoji

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