AFK means "away from keyboard" in typing shorthand. Its meaning can be literal or it can simply indicate that you aren't online. AFK is a helpful phrase for communal online spaces, when you want a ...

For the sake of this story, I'd like to invent a new acronym: IAVS, which means, "I am very sorry." The reason for the apology stems from a story I wrote last year, "28 Internet acronyms every parent ...

Do you know what TCP/IP means? (Hint: You’re using it right now.) What about CDMA? Or GPT? While the concepts and execution of these technologies are clear to most of us who have been on the internet ...

The Internet is rife with various acronyms and complex slangs. This article will help parents decode the meaning to most of them. Acronyms are widely popular across the Internet, especially on social ...

Texting has its own language – sometimes literally. While most of us have a handle on the basics like “LOL” and “IDK,” a new study from language learning platform Preply reveals that even the most ...

New findings reveal the social media abbreviations that are confusing people the most, and ‘FB’ has come in first place. These insights come from the website design agency ProfileTree who gathered a ...

Hey, we're Rhett and Link from Good Mythical Morning. And we're about to define some internet acronyms. their self worth in helping others on the internet. TL apostrophe DR, too long, didn't read.

*For a full ranking of the 100 text messaging abbreviations analysed, please find attached data sheet in the OneDrive folder here. SMH (Shake my head) tops the list as the most searched for text ...