F.Y.I.

[paulb203]

I thought, until just now, that the FYI abbreviation for 'For your information', was an internet creation, but I just heard it on episode 2 of the first series of The Twilight Zone.

 

[PeroK]

I thought, until just now, that the FYI abbreviation for 'For your information', was an internet creation, but I just heard it on episode 2 of the first series of The Twilight Zone.

Many TLA's have been around for some time.

 

[paulb203]

Many TLA's have been around for some time.

Yeah. Turns out 'lol' might even be pre-internet.

 

[Klystron]

Yeah. Turns out 'lol' might even be pre-internet.

Correct. In medical shorthand a lol in nad signifies a "little old lady" in "no apparent distress".

Morse code telegraphy from 19th Century abbreviated and contracted every possible word. Remnants persist such as Morse radio beacons broadcasting airport recognition symbols (DEN for Denver) and stock market chirons displaying corporate abbreviations originally printed on paper ticker tapes (NBC on NYSE).