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[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 33 points 3 days ago (3 children)

ppl

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You're not paying by the letter, son. Use your real words.

[–] KoalaUnknown@lemmy.world 23 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

Ok boomer

[–] GuardYaGrill@sh.itjust.works 9 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (3 children)

You do realize that this is /c/90s_memes right? In the 90’s people didnt abbreviate every word longer than 5 characters.

[–] Natanael 12 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Are you forgetting SMS speak? People used to have 160 characters or less

[–] atomicorange@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago (2 children)

You think we were texting in the 90s?

[–] Natanael 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMS

1993 feels VERY 90's to me for some reason.

Also I distinctly remember Nokia phones even before the 3310

[–] atomicorange@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Did you read the article? It was barely used until 2000.

[–] Natanael 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Well excuse me for being from the Nordics where it was adopted early

[–] atomicorange@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Just saying it doesn’t work as a reason to abbreviate everything in this meme. 🤷‍♀️

[–] Natanael 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

These TVs coexisted with abbreviated texting in Sweden

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

pagers dude

[–] atomicorange@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

911!

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

1177 700 711730 70 1231773177 40111 00 7415

[–] __nobodynowhere@sh.itjust.works 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

In the 90s it wasn't 2025

[–] doingthestuff@lemy.lol 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

In the 90s, those were your mom's numbers. Waist size, weigt in kilos, body count. 2025. These are 90s jokes btw.

[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 days ago

But we had the best 1337 haxxors.

[–] dogs0n@sh.itjust.works 7 points 3 days ago

You mean "k boomr"?

[–] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 days ago

How dare you call him son, he is clearly from the colonial era where they had to pay by the letter at the printing house.

This is why American English has a lot of simplified words.