Who invented lol

The dictionary points to an electronic newsletter from the International FidoNet Association, dated 8 May It appears to be the earliest use of LOL on record. No, neither have we.

Using it is obviously more convenient when you're typing or texting. He says the rise of email and early texting pre-smartphones helped the popularity of LOL. Wayne Pearson says he wrote LOL in a chat room after his friend "Sprout" said something that made him laugh so loud it echoed off his kitchen walls. He writes that he would have saved the original conversation had he known it would spread like it has.

But its earliest confirmed usage as a tech term came in , when it was used in -- you guessed it -- a manual for computer programmers. I have an exam in an hour. News U. Politics Joe Biden Congress Extremism. Special Projects Highline. HuffPost Personal Video Horoscopes. Follow Us. Terms Privacy Policy. Rebecca Hiscott. Let disorder2k8 be your guide. Don't repeat his mistakes. Although it's now an immovable piece of our culture, LOL hasn't infiltrated the pop charts as well as it could.

Therefore, the best song currently to be called LOL is by a band called Rockstah. It isn't very good at all — it can best be described as vaguely miffed dubstep — but is saved by the fact that it's in German, so its horrors are largely veiled to the British ear.

And, as the next award proves, it could have been a lot worse. It would have been bad enough for him to just call it LOL but, no, he had to add :- to the end of it. It looks like someone's punched their keyboard out of frustration, possibly after reading Trey Songz's discography. Apparently the title is pronounced "LOL Smiley Face", but this is hard to verify because anyone who has ever said this out loud has been forced by society to become a shivering recluse in a cave somewhere.

It is notable for starring Greta Gerwig in her first ever role. Even if you haven't seen it, it's still the best film ever made called LOL because the only other English- language film to be called LOL is ….

Miley Cyrus plays, like, a teenager who breaks up with her boyfriend. But, like, her new boyfriend totally bangs her enemy in a toilet, and her mom's Demi Moore and she wants to go to Paris but Demi Moore's like "no way" and she's all like "yuh-HUH" and then they cry and cuddle and time folds in on itself and you lose all sensation in your limbs and then it ends.

In short: not LOL. If it wasn't for LOL, we wouldn't be blessed with LOLCats — the feline photographs that come accompanied by heavily accented and phonetically spelled captions.

Almost 12, people have seen this picture and then clicked the "like" button underneath it. We're all doomed. All of us. A video entitled "Lol wtf japanese butt gun?? Over 13 million people have watched it since it was uploaded in the summer of In the video, a Japanese schoolgirl pulls up her skirt, pushes an enormous machine gun barrel out of her backside and then fires it at an astonished-looking older man.

The whole thing lasts for 11 seconds, after which viewers are somehow expected to just get on with their lives again. Yahoo Answers is potentially the maddest corner of the entire internet. It's also where you can find some of the most avant garde uses of the term LOL ever written. The best is arguably this health question, asked by an anxious — if uncontrollably giggling — user six years ago.

It reads : "Whats wronge with my mouth lol? Update: the alst time i ate a banana was like 2 months ago lol". As well as school playgrounds, words like "lolz" and "lolling" can be heard in pubs and offices - though often sarcastically, or in parody.

Love it or loathe it, "lol" is now a legitimate word in our lexicon, says Graeme Diamond, the OED's principal editor for new words. The word serves a real purpose - it conveys tone in text, something that even the most cynical critics accept.

I'm basically someone who kind of hates it," says Rob Manuel of the internet humour site b3ta. But for young internet entrepreneurs like Ben Huh, of the Cheezburger Network of comedy sites, "LOL" is much more than a necessary evil.

It's both a tool and a toy. I use it all the time in e-mail exchanges. It's a polite way of acknowledging someone," he says. In almost an ironic sense, like a slow handclap after a bad joke. But no matter how much irony we cake it in, the L-word grinds the ears of many people over the age of While on Facebook, there are at least half a dozen "anti-LOL" groups, where lol-ophobes dream of loll-ageddon:.

Another complains that lol "doesn't sound anything like laughter. In fact you physically CAN'T say it while smiling.