Article on the BBC News
This hasn't got too much to do with technology, but it can be slightly related.
'LOL' is such a commonly used phrase, they decided that the word should be in the dictionary.
So, it was found out that the pharse was first discovered on an early internet discussion forum, Usenet, in the early 1980s.
The original use was typed by Wayne Pearson, in Calgary, who says he wrote the first ever LOL in reply to a gag by someone called "Sprout".
"LOL" was "geek-speak that filtered through to the mainstream"
This has also let to some popular internet crazes, like Lolcats, whose appeal spread far beyond the realms of cyber-geeks.
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