Comment on I rebuilt a 1997 chat room. First thing someone typed was "lol". Some things never change.

SGforce@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• nightwatch_admin@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Wrong, we rofl’d and lol’d on our BBS chatboards in the 80s.

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  • Dnb@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Even lmao if we had to

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    • Hupf@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      rofl Mao

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• axh@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Poor kid though it’s about League of legends

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• cannedtuna@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  A/S/L?

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  • MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    🤟

    It’s not much, but it’s honest ASL.

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• unitedwithme@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I used it for AOL/AIM. back then it was “lots of love” so when it started changing and used in texts I was confused, lol 🤔

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  • jaybone@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    But it was laugh out loud before AOL/AIM existed.

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• WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  “Dave Barry in Cyberspace” was published in 1996 and contained a list of abbreviations commonly used on the Internet, including “LOL”.

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