litfarm » internet http://www.litfarm.com get writing. get published. Sat, 23 Jan 2010 16:00:15 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 telex, father of roflmao http://www.litfarm.com/2009/12/03/telex-father-roflmao/ http://www.litfarm.com/2009/12/03/telex-father-roflmao/#comments Thu, 03 Dec 2009 16:00:43 +0000 chris http://litfarm.com/?p=114 forged by dwarves at the dawn of time...

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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