Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Phrases like A/S/L and TTYL may have bit the dust post-chatroom era. But there’s one term from the early days of the Internet that ...

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your account’s ‘Saved for Later’ section. I’m literally dying at the way Jessica Bennett’s recent piece in the New York Times about hyperbole ...

This month marks the 25th anniversary of the first known usage of LOL for “laughing out loud” (the “lots of love” interpretation, incidentally, is quite a bit older). The linguist Ben Zimmer notes ...

While I’m not a hardcore gamer by any means, one of the games I’ve found myself playing quite often over the past year or so is League of Legends (aka LoL). It’s a fast paced, team based game based on ...

Phrases like A/S/L and TTYL may have bit the dust post-chatroom era. But there’s one term from the early days of the Internet that continues on as a major part of our lexicon: LOL. It’s an acronym, a ...