Taking AIM seriously: joy of instant contact what it MEANS / jargon, acronyms and other cryptic terms in the news International Herald Tribune (9/15/2003)
...laugh out loud, and the use of variations on the smiley face, known as emoticons. AIM windows have a ''warn'' button, which is intended to serve as...comYahoo Messenger: messenger.yahoo.comAcronym list: on www.aim.com/acronyms.adp?aolp=

Culture and language of online community New Straits Times (5/24/2001)
...display of an emotion via an acronym. In other words, many of us are using acronyms to shorten our sentences, and many are using emoticons to display their feelings (see figure 1). Emoticons and acronyms. Writing or chatting online...expressions, smileys and emoticons were created. ...

WHAT DID U SAY? OIC Chicago Sun-Times (2/14/1993)
Computer users have developed a shorthand language of acronyms, odd phrases and emoticons. Triviots are especially fond of those that indicate laughing. Someone who cracks a joke might get an "LOL" in response - for...

U got the message? The Scotsman (9/7/2000)
...one of the many so-called "emoticons " or "smilies" that have...growth of this e-dialect of acronyms and emoticons has developed anyway for...technological cause is an acronym itself: SMS which stands...mail abbreviations and "emoticons". Oddly enough, considering...Perhaps the most popular ...

No need to speak: Teens find instant messaging says it all.(Neighbor)(Batavia) Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL) (9/25/2003)
...Teenagers can add little emoticons that show all types of emotion...there is a whole alphabet of acronyms that are often used, such...Drisch taught me some of the acronyms and I was on my way. The next...learning the instant message acronyms wasn't that hard. Most of...

Computer Currents High-Tech Dictionary Signal (12/1/1999)
...terminology, hypertext markup language tags, file types, domains, emoticons, which are icons that express emotions, and chat room lingo...array of articles from current and past issues, a comprehensive acronym list, next year's editorial calendar, and direct e-mail contact...

Virtual wink is latest way to make I contact.(Family Times) The Washington Times (8/11/1998)
...as signs for a kiss, a smile and lots of hugs and kisses. Emoticons, symbols used to express emotions, are cyberworld's answer...communication at the University of Missouri in Columbia. People use emoticons, bold type and a variety of ways to try to compensate for...typed has enough meaning to get a response is ...

Mind your language The Spectator (12/16/2000)
...L1.99). The messages come in three categories: so-called emoticons (expressing the emotional intent or register of a message); abbreviations (either acronyms or shortened words); and pictograms (more or less joky). Emoticons are viewed with the lefthand side at the top. Examples...

Cyberspeak -- it's Greek to all but the webwise The Boston Globe (8/7/1996)
...making me totally hyper. I'm a bundle of emoticons. If I have no hotlist or hotlinks, how can...nobody writes words when they can write acronyms -- as in YABA (yet another bloody acronym). FYI, there's TIA (thanks in advance), BRB...