ICT innovations from Finland, and Finnish digilect in electronic media culture

The article deals with ICT (Information and Communication Technologies) innovations that were entirely or partially invented in Finland (Nokia mobile phone technology, IRC, Linux, input to invent SMS). In the paper we discuss the current electronic communication that developed media culture and new codes, which combine pictural and language elements: emoticons and emojis as well as texting. Finland is the first country in the world to create its own national emojis (63 so far). Finally, we show characteristics of the Finnish texting, i.e. “cyberslang” (mainly in younger people’s communication), in other words “digilect” called after publications by a Hungarian linguist Ágnes Veszelszki.