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Internet slang has seeped into our everyday vocabulary thanks to technology enthusiasts or run-of-the-mill people looking for shorthand to save keystrokes or hackers seeking code to cloak their messages. The trend has brought with it geeky terms, that could have only been conceived by those who have spent years living in front of a computer monitor. Geek speak has gained recognition by the likes of the Oxford English Dictionary. Last year, it even added "[|lol]," which for the uninitiated means "laughing out loud" or "laugh out loud."
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OMG! LOL: Internet Slang Added to Oxford English Dictionary Time-saving online abbreviations like LOL, OMG, and IMHO are now part of the official English language. OED explained that although "initialisms" like OMG (Oh My God), LOL (Laughing Out Loud) and IMHO (In My Humble/Honest Opinion) are strongly associated with the language of electronic communications, their origins are surprisingly predating the Internet era.
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For example, OED found a quotation for OMG in a personal letter from 1917, and FYI (For Your Information) originated in the language of memoranda in 1941. Also, apparently the LOL expression had a previous life, starting in 1960, denoting an elderly woman (Little Old Lady). OED notes that some expressions like OMG and LOL are used outside electronic communication contexts as well, including print and spoken use, in the form of more than a simple abbreviation:

"The intention is usually to signal an informal, gossipy mode of expression, and perhaps parody the level of unreflective enthusiasm or overstatement that can sometimes appear in online discourse, while at the same time marking oneself as an ‘insider' au fait with the forms of expression associated with the latest technology." If you are not familiar with the online slang, you can always check out this:- Internet slang dictionary and translator. Just enter the text slang you want to translate and you are done. TTYL (Talk to you Later )

The origins of many tech terms, though, remain a mystery. Many of them originated back in the early days of the Internet before it was carefully indexed and cached by Google. So, it may be impossible to find the first user of a term like [|W][|00][|t], (, "Whoomp, there it is", ) a common Internet slang interjection to express excitement, for example. However, some of these terms have a clearer origin that even pre-date the Internet culture that made them famous. Here are five Internet slang terms with a surprising history you might not know.

__**Leet**__ This is both a geeky term and an entire language more commonly called "Leetspeak." The definition of the term leet is shorthand for the word elite. For example: "Those are some leet game competitors." Leetspeak, the language, is like a digital version of Pig Latin except much more complicated, used to create private speech. In Leetspeak, letters are replaced with numbers and symbols. For example "leet" itself would be spelled 1337. The origins of the Leet language date back to the 1980s and days of bulletin boards, which were the primordial soup where a lot of Internet slang first came from. Leetspeak soon gained popularity within the hacker community as a way of communicating in code on websites and newsgroups. Cloaking their activities in Leetspeak allowed them to hide their discussions from search engines and keyword searches. The methodology for translating into leetspeak is often haphazard with multiple ways of translating some letters. If you want to try out leetspeak for yourself, you can consult a handy chart or cheat by using one of the many [|leetspeak][|translators] on the Web.

__**Pwn**__ This term seems to have fallen somewhat out of favor in recent years as Internet slang due to overuse in the early part of the 2000s, but there was a time when you did not beat people at videogames, you pwned them. The exact origins of pwn are disputed. One popular theory says the term originatedback inthe 1930[|s] in the world of chess when a Russian competitor’s accent changed:- "I will pawn to your knight" to "evil pwn you tonight." Many sources including a Canadian Press article propose that the modern usage probably originated in a typo when attempting to type "own."

There is no definitive proof that is the case, but if that origin is accurate then pwn belongs to a whole class of Internet slang that owes its existence to misspellings like "teh" rather than "the."

__**Internet trolls**__ This refers to an online commenter or poster on an Internet forum who knowingly posts controversial or incorrect material just to try, and stir up a reaction. The origins of the term are easy to trace. It is essentially a double entendre for the fiendish and ugly mythological being "a troll" and the action of "trolling," fishing. Therefore, an Internet Troll is an ugly person who fishes around on the Internet looking to start a fight with the lure of inflammatory comments.

The first recorded use of a "troll" in this context came from a group on the newsgroup service Usenet called alt.folklore.urban. In the early 90’s alt.folklore.urban branched the term out from its earlier mythological meaning and began using it to describe a behavior it had seen in its members.

A tasteful example of a troll exchange from the Urban Dictionary: First person: "I just found the coolest ninja pencil in existence." Second person: "I just found the most pathetic thread in existence."

Originally, trolling was not considered a negative activity to the community. Trolls would post information and arguments that were already well-worn within the community to separate the veteran group members (who would not engage) from the new members (who would). "Trolling for newbies," as the activity was known, helped establish a hierarchy on the board, and was considered by most users to be a useful function.

__**Emoticon**__ This term was created in the early 80's as a simple blending of the words emotion and icon. But emoticons themselves, the tiny ASCII faces people throw into your IM conversations to show how they are feeling, have roots that date back way before the Internet was invented. There are numerous examples of 19th century emoticons. Most examples were oriented up and down like a regular face so they look different than the left-right, but the concept is exactly the same.

For emoticon purists, there is even a disputed example of something that looks like amodernemoticonin 1862 in a newspaper report of one of Lincoln’s speeches. Regardless, emoticons actually predate their modern Internet context by over a century.

__**Gg**__ This term is short for the phrase "good game", and it is one of many terms that originated in multiplayer games such as Marathon. The shorthand of "gg" is a time saver for those playing a live opponent. In the heat of battle, "gg" serves as shorthand to save you from having to type out "good game" so you do not waste precious seconds typing.

These days typing "gg" is a customary way to cede a match to your opponent in games like Starcraft II. You are essentially saying it has been a good game, but it is over now and you have lost.

There are variations of "gg" such as "gl," which means "good luck." It is hard to track back the exact origins of tech jargon. Of course, these are just some of the many terms that are becoming a part of our daily lives on the Internet, but they show the challenges Web etymology faces trying to trace these terms back into the wild days of the early Internet along with the insight we can gleam when a term’s origin is found.