Internet Acronyms (Y/N)

[KIPAX]

I ahve been using Internet Acronyms from the old BBS days when it cost 10p a minute to be online and you also paid your ISP as well.. So quick typing was a must to save money... Before this the internet 20 years ago was very expensive just to send an email so you had to keep text to a minimum. To this end Acronyms where used a lot and a lot of people still use them.. I certainly do. But increasingly more people are asking what they mean.. I just got asked today what As far as I know means and I use that a lot..

Looks like the age of bandwidth makes these acronyms pointless nowerdays
These are a few real old ones that have been going years and I still use.,... pure habit


BTW By the way
FWIW For what it's worth
FYI For Your Information
HTH Hope This Helps
IIRC If I Recall Correctly
IMHO In my humble opinion
PITA Pain in the ass
ROFL Rolling on floor laughing.
RTFM Read the (SWEAR WORD) manual
WYSIWYG What You See Is What You Get

[WillowTheWhisp]

They are still used a lot in AOL chatrooms, especially the quiz rooms where speed is of the essence. Trying to hold a conversation whilst getting in as quickly as possible with the answer in order to score the highest points either demands a very speedy typist or a knowledge of acronyms. ROFL and LMAO are very popular.

If someone there types 'PEST' they are not insulting you but asking to be escused for typing slowly. (please excuse slow typing)

One of my favourites is PEBBAK (problems exist between brain and keyboard) That's usually my excuse for typos etc.

GTG (got to go)
BRB (be right back)
TAF (that's all folks) when a quiz host is leaving.

There are quite a lot more but can't think of them off-hand.

[KIPAX]

BRB is one of the oldest and I seem to recall TTFN being used by a certain DJ about 300 years ago : ) . Jimmy Young was it?

[WillowTheWhisp]

Ah but he used it vocally and it takes as much saying as the words it replaces. Not quite so bad a WWW which takes longer to say than "world wide web"

I forgot the most commonly asked ? in AOL chatrooms which is a/s/l?

[Len]

Originally Posted by willow

I forgot the most commonly asked ? in AOL chatrooms which is a/s/l?

I think Asl = Age, Sex and Location.
I have seen this (WYSIWYG) many times but never new what it ment, untill now.
Cheers.
KIPAX

[WillowTheWhisp]

Originally Posted by Len

I think Asl = Age, Sex and Location.

Yep. Usually used by the late teens/early twenties in chat rooms - as if they can only talk to people in their own age group or location! lol

[ShortStuff]

Kipax - you didn't explain what As far as I know meant?

[KIPAX]

Well spotted

As far As I Know


HTH

[WillowTheWhisp]

We could have a quiz of these LOL

[Len]

If you do a search on google for” Internet Acronyms” you will find loads of info about them all over the place. lol

Try this one:

http://www.gaarde.org/acronyms/

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[vorlon24]

wysiwyg used to be used with Lotus 1-2-3 when you wanted to create a chart.

That was some 12 years ago!