N.Y. museum acquires first emoji

It happened this past week ... a huge new honor for those tiny cell phone pictographs.New York’s Museum of Modern Art announced Wednesday it has acquired the original 176 emoji, first introduced by Japan’s national phone company in 1999.A combination of the Japanese words for “picture” and “character,” the original emoji were designed to communicate useful information to small cell phone screens in the form of an image just twelve pixels square.Some of those o