LOL has been a part of Internet culture since the '80s. It's time to break down its history, significance, meaning, and ...

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 ...

If there was any doubt that the English language is and always will be a work in progress, the following fact should end it: LOL is a word. As in, an honest-to-goodness, in-the-Oxford English ...

There's a deceitful act I've been engaging in for years—lol—but it wasn't until recently, while texting a massive rant to a friend, that I became aware of just how bad it is. I'd just sent an ...

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 ...

Writer Adam Gopnik learned Internet chat from his son, Luke, and quickly caught on to such lingo as ‘brb’ and ‘gtg.’ But he didn’t get the hang of ‘LOL’—to disastrous effects. Read Adam’s funny and ...

You know those millennials who pepper every text with an “lol” or emoji like it’s life support? Anna Gaddis (@annagaddis) is one of those people — and she’s clapping back at the haters. In a recent ...