Where "LOL" really comes from

[qdavid]

I like to listen to Ira Plato on PBS on Science Friday sometimes. It’s cool sometimes. Yesterday he had on a Professor Kleinrock, a computer expert from UCLA who was one of the fathers of the internet. Kleinrock said early computers could “talk to each other” with the user first typing “LOG” and the receiving computer completing the word “LOGIN”. During the first transmission the user typed LO but the system crashed while he was typing the G so LOL was transmitted. So fittingly, LOL was the first thing transmitted. He also said Al Gore WAS very instrumental and at the forefront at the internet becoming what it is today. He was not in at development, but was one of the most important leaders in forwarding the ideas so the internet could become what it is today. Although no one had any idea what it would become.

 

[Catharsis]

Yeah, I heard the show yesterday, really interesting stuff. NPR is great, nothing better than a NPR talk/news show and a bowl.

 

[freeride high]

lol came before laugh out loud?
huh?

 

[cyberwax]

yea as they had to restart the character transfer.. L - O - .... Restart L - O - G - etc, LOL OGIN

 

[cork144]

i remember long ago it was also used to be lots of love

 

[ariston]

the good ol internet days
You could see other peoples ISP address, see which internet provider they use, tell them "hello AT&T user. log off the chat or I will destroy your screen" and whoop they left the chat. LOL
Kind of evil, but very funny.

 

[cellardweller]

so where did my LOL'erskates come from?

so where did my LOL'erskates come from?

LOL

 

[SkiFreeYeti]

 

[Joe Hawkins]

wow thats quite bizarre, I read a story 2 days ago on the 40th anniversary of the net and was gonna request a transcript of the 1st ever use of "LOL" for a short film im working on
thanks for that