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LOL -- 25 Years Old Today !
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Krixtal Icefluxor
INLAND EMPIRE Galactic
#1 - 2014-05-27 13:33:30 UTC
Happy 25th Birthday to LOL

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Graygor
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#2 - 2014-05-27 13:44:46 UTC
Could have sworn there was a BBC article years ago that went on about internet terms and how they were all used in telegraphy.

Still, if this is correct, happy birthday LOL.

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Krixtal Icefluxor
INLAND EMPIRE Galactic
#3 - 2014-05-27 14:18:04 UTC
Graygor wrote:
Could have sworn there was a BBC article years ago that went on about internet terms and how they were all used in telegraphy.


Found:

"A couple months ago (in this blog) but actually 20 years later (in real time), the New York Times Sunday Magazine ran an article explaining that these conversations between telegraph operators were how jokes went viral in 1910. So surely there must have been a telegraph equivalent of LOL or ROFL, right?

-- Operators laugh over a wire, or rather, they convey the fact that they are amused. They do this by telegraphing “ha, ha.” Very great amusement is indicated by sending “ha” slowly and repeating it several times, and a smile is expressed by sending “ha” once or perhaps twice. Transmitting it slowly and repeating it tells the perpetrator of the joke at the other end of the wire that the listener is leaning back in his chair and laughing long and heartily. --

So it looks like “ha” was the “LOL” of 1890."

From 1890: The First Text Messages

"He has mounted his hind-legs, and blown crass vapidities through the bowel of his neck."  - Ambrose Bierce on Oscar Wilde's Lecture in San Francisco 1882
Slade Trillgon
Brutor Force Federated
#4 - 2014-05-27 14:50:55 UTC
That is an awesome find. Goes a long way to 'justify' the morphing of language due to increased speed and efficiency of said communications that lack physical interactions.
Kijo Rikki
Killboard Padding Services
#5 - 2014-05-27 14:51:53 UTC
Fun Fact: Morse Code L and S are only one dash apart. (Dot-Dash-Dot-Dot vs. Dot-Dot-Dot). It is amusing to think about a fictional scenario where a couple ships sharing a laugh were mistaken for SOSes.

You make a valid point, good Sir or Madam. 
Akita T
Caldari Navy Volunteer Task Force
#6 - 2014-05-27 16:52:54 UTC
Kijo Rikki wrote:
Fun Fact: Morse Code L and S are only one dash apart. (Dot-Dash-Dot-Dot vs. Dot-Dot-Dot). It is amusing to think about a fictional scenario where a couple ships sharing a laugh were mistaken for SOSes.

Bip Beeeeep Bip Bip mistaken for Bip Bip Bip ?
Slim chance.

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Kijo Rikki
Killboard Padding Services
#7 - 2014-05-27 16:56:11 UTC
Akita T wrote:
Kijo Rikki wrote:
Fun Fact: Morse Code L and S are only one dash apart. (Dot-Dash-Dot-Dot vs. Dot-Dot-Dot). It is amusing to think about a fictional scenario where a couple ships sharing a laugh were mistaken for SOSes.

Bip Beeeeep Bip Bip mistaken for Bip Bip Bip ?
Slim chance.


Of course. I was thinking more operator error due to literally lol. Considering the professionalism, also slim chance.

You make a valid point, good Sir or Madam. 
Doreen Kaundur
#8 - 2014-05-27 18:06:08 UTC
I wonder how old "STFU" is?

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