Who started "LOL"?

I didn't know it was bbs old. Holy cunt nuggets is that old.

The history of elle oh elle.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LOL

I'm using your thread to find out wjY thisnoi,tire is

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Kek originated from WoW.
Because a lot of the same virgins who play wow also spent a lot of time on 4chinz, it spread here.

Read a book on it. There's lots.
Also pre 2000s internet was a very cool place.
You know how people still talk about the Yea Forums cancer? They are referring to a time when people on Yea Forums actually did things, the occasional decent conversation was had, and that's because we weren't as certain that every fucking word we wrote was being recorded in NSA servers. Now we know. So everyone self censors.

The internet before full fascism was fun. And not just for illegal things, but for good, interesting conversation on every topic.

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>Who started "LOL"?
Wayne Pearson

citations:
pages.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/~crwth/LOL.html
oed.com/viewdictionaryentry/Entry/291168

I want to travel back to the MSDOS days.

sauce

What do you mean, the NSA is not watching this. Fellow people of the internet site 4 channel, at this time please send me all of your "Cheese pizza" along with your home address and valid government-issued ID.
-t. unsuspicious Yea Forums man

Americans are obsessed with initialisms and acronyms, mostly because thats what the military does and its the only country where the public gets exposed to these type of things. IIRC tbh imo roflmao dob doa asap lol

I'm fucking lit! You fucks are lame sucky creatures ya yeet

Idk but in 2001 during primary school one of the kids were saying “do you know what lol means?” And it was the curiosity alone that made it spread from school to school in my city in Australia. Most kids still wouldn’t be using computers/phones until 2006 or later.

>cell phones didn't exist
Yes they did. But, yeah, they couldn't text yet.

No joke, those were better days.
So much has been dismantled and grabbed by corporations since then.

Libraries were better, open longer. No fees for most services. University tuition was under $1000 a year in Canada. We had actual unions and actual jobs that paid enough money to live on.

36/m/fl, a/s/l?

Never thought of it having something to do with the military, but you may be right.

I got my first cell phone in 1995. It could text. It was a Nokia. Tiny thing with a battery that could keep it going for three days.

12/f/Uranus

i remember this i think. wasnt that what you saw as an alliance player when an orc said 'lol'?

I got my first phone in 2005. Probably the same one.

yes. and the characters laugh when typing lol, rofl, etc so you knew it was lol even if it was your first encounter

I miss the old days, that's for sure.

I miss all my AOL/IRC girlfriends from the mid 1990s. I married one of em.

>LOL

Oh well, they're likely all landwhales, thank jeebus i'm male and itdoesn't apply to us.

what's your SN? *wink wink wink wink wink wink wink wink nudge*

>en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LOL
>Haig singles out LOL as one of the three most popular initialisms in Internet slang, alongside BFN[dubious – discuss] ("bye for now") and IMHO ("in my honest/humble opinion").

BFN? I've used the internet for about 2 decades. I've never seen anyone say BFN. These people are FD ("fucking dumb").

2 decades isnt that long bro

yeah i guess i must have just missed one of the top 3 internet acronyms for 20 years by coincidence

Nigga how high are you rn?