who started this fad?
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who started this fad?
A person who decided that typing "Haha" was too much effort, so they shortened by one letter?
I prefer the ttyl people: Why are you touching that youthful lad?
What people don't know, is that it actually stands for 'lots of love'
An example:
jameskf: My Mum just died : (
DriverMan: LOL
karg: LOL, that's so sad.
qfeen: LOL :<
drunk: LOL
cranyon666: Thats *really* sad LOL
eggmaster: I feel you loss
eggmaster: LoL
fust0r: LoLz, Hope it wasn't a long and painful death
jameskf: Thanks Guys your the best internet pals i got!
drunk: We're always here for you, LOL.
'Lol' was probably started like every other pointless acronym: some teenage girl can only type at the speed of one key per second, and therefore finds it easier to say [insert acronym here].
Jesus.
Duh.
1) Find who started "lol"
2) Build Time machine
3) ????
4) PROFIT!
Meh. If you were planning to strangle the person who created the acronym: 'lol', then that isn't going to stop the craploads of other annoying acronyms that exist.
Appendix
5) Rinse and repeat for ROFL, LMAO, etc
IT WAS ME! MWAHAHAHA! :evilking:
As The Mighty Sabotender said, lol was Lots Of Love. I guess someone just thought that it could stand for laugh out loud and copied it.
AOL created it, doi.
There is nothing wrong with a 'lol' here and there, but when people use it all the time it gets irritating:
Me: Hey, how are you?
Them: Lol
Them: I'm okay, you?
Me: I'm alright tar.
Them: LOL!
:mad2:
Lol ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Jess
LOLz > lol
I started it on starcraft. it was all my doing.
lolQuote:
Originally Posted by Jess
we all know jesus created lolQuote:
Originally Posted by Orestes
lol is Laugh out Loud! Duh!:eep:
I never "lol". I do know that it started, like all things purely evil on the internet, in Usenet groups.
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Originally Posted by Mr Kysaku
:rolleyes2Quote:
Originally Posted by The Mighty Sabotender
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Originally Posted by Jess
Bastard. :mad2:Quote:
Originally Posted by ScottNUMBERS the murderer
lol plzQuote:
Originally Posted by Jess
(lol = less obscene language)
sorry sir. :(Quote:
Originally Posted by ScottNUMBERS
this has prolly been mintioned but laugh out loud damn
LOL
I have heard dozens of meanings.
Acronyms aren't uncommon enough to worry about their origins.
I agree.