who's your daddy?
Another long time draft from the Litfarm vault, a great article about telex, the Associated Press, and the abbreviated speech that predates ;-) and lol.
Telex revolutionized reporting, and the AP was the first conglomeration of news feeds, created to deal with the limited bandwidth on the teletype network.
tl;dr version: wtf, telex pwns. roflmao? qq.
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