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No chance, "lol" has been in usage for at least 25 years, possibly more than 30.
by grncdr 3y ago
No chance, "lol" has been in usage for at least 25 years, possibly more than 30.
- benj111 3y agoWell this was in real life, so you aren't going to get records. Wikipedia suggests lol is more like 40 years old, but you actually have a written record to back that up. All I have is my own experience, I wasn't really on the internet until the 2000s so I wouldn't have come across lol until mobile phones and texting became widespread (around 1999/2000). "I accidentally a" would have been in the 1995 - 2000 time frame. But again that's just my experience of it.
- seanhunter 3y agoYeah LOL comes from the BBS days as do a bunch of other acronyms/initialisms https://slate.com/human-interest/2014/05/lol-s-25th-anniversary-origins-of-still-popular-internet-abbreviation-trace-back-to-may-1989-newsletter.html https://slate.com/human-interest/2014/05/lol-s-25th-annivers...
- pohl 3y agoI’ll stand as witness to the fact that ordinary people playfully tortured the language towards humorously cute long, long before one TRS-80 could call another over the phone. The tech just helped these people find and feed off of each other.
- zem 3y agolook up the (speculative) etymology of OK for instance
- Izkata 3y agoKnowyourmeme has a confirmed usage of "lol" from 1989, along with a list of others from the same document: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/lol https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/lol "I accidentally" started in 2008, and they have a link to the youtube video it came from: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/i-accidentally https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/i-accidentally