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Internet Acronyms

Below you will see several chat and internet acronyms. Guess what they stand for.
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First submittedOctober 16, 2011
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Acronym
Phrase
TTYL
Talk to You Later
LOL
Laughing Out Loud
IMHO
In My Humble Opinion
FWIW
For What It's Worth
FYI
For Your Information
TMI
Too Much Information
BTW
By The Way
AFAIK
As Far as I Know
IM
Instant Message
BFF
Best Friends Forever
J/K
Just Kidding
PHAT
Pretty Hot and Tempting
Acronym
Phrase
EOM
End of Message
OTOH
On the Other Hand
WYSIWYG
What You See is What You Get
BBW
Big Beautiful Woman
IDK
I Don't Know
BRB
Be Right Back
GTG
Got to Go
IRL
In Real Life
ROFL
Rolling on Floor, Laughing
ASL
Age, Sex, Location
FTW
For the Win
AFK
Away from Keyboard
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104 Recent Comments
delky06
+2
Level 27
Oct 16, 2011
Also for BBW - Big Bold Women
IsleAuHaulte
+5
Level 92
Jul 7, 2019
Bulk baggage weight
Anonymousbeer25
+1
Level 56
Aug 12, 2025
Banana Brain Walk
Pontiac
+1
Level 61
Mar 13, 2026
Bubble Bath War
CosmicCalamity
+4
Level 74
Apr 18, 2025
No.
Gebb
+1
Level 65
Nov 24, 2025
It’s very often used for Big Black Woman, it should be accepted too.
stillnotginger3003
+3
Level 19
Feb 16, 2012
lol
Coszmonaut
+3
Level 35
Feb 17, 2012
Can't believe I missed ASL.
DarthKnight
+4
Level 92
Mar 31, 2025
American sign language?
CosmicCalamity
+1
Level 74
Apr 18, 2025
🙄
moose2
+13
Level 6
Aug 2, 2012
You could add "roll on the floor laughing" as a synonym for ROFL
babbaloo7
+2
Level 49
Nov 24, 2014
Agree. That's the only reason I missed it.
Tom2121
+2
Level 43
Jan 18, 2015
i typed the same!!!
quizzygirl
+30
Level 25
Aug 28, 2012
I thought ASL was American Sign Language...:P
idrewsomefishes
+10
Level 32
Nov 22, 2014
I can't be the only one who tried Above Sea Level!
IsleAuHaulte
+3
Level 92
Jul 7, 2019
idrewsomefishes above sea level.

Interesting.

wormgod209
+1
Level 34
Aug 30, 2022
yes i tihnk u xcan haha! xD
Tom2121
+3
Level 43
Jan 18, 2015
I tried above sea level too idrewsomefishes!!!!!!!!!!
tom88
+2
Level 77
Feb 12, 2020
That's definitely a real acronym. it's just not related to the internet per se
Parnie
+9
Level 4
Sep 18, 2012
A funny story...

Friend: What does IDK mean?

Me: I don't know.

Friend: You don't know either? Hmmm.

hahahahaha!

smartcookie17
+13
Level 44
Jul 21, 2014
Both of these actually happened, BTW.

Even better... Mom says What does IDK, LY, and TTYL mean/

Kid: I don't know, love you, talk to you later. Mom: Okay, I'll ask your sister. Or there was a lady who posted on Facebook: My father just died today. LOL. Another person said: What on earth? It's not funny! She says: No, it's not. What do you mean? They say: Well, you said LOL. That means Laugh Out Loud. She said: What? I thought it meant Lots Of Love!

Basaball
+1
Level 52
Mar 16, 2026
My grandma ends every huge paragraph of text message about whatever random thing to our family group chat with “LOL😘😘😘😘❤️❤️❤️❤️”

😔

evacooper
+2
Level 50
May 13, 2015
i had this conversation with my mom...
wormgod209
+2
Level 34
Aug 30, 2022
that is literally so funny. hahahaah! kids these days... they just wont get it!! haha... makes me glad to have grown up when i did... but mann.... things sure have changed. kids these days... they dont even drink out of hoses.... sheesh... im getting old....
punkybrewster
+6
Level 85
Jul 16, 2013
My favorite is IKR? (I know, right?)
mightythor
+4
Level 68
May 20, 2014
FYI, TMI, WYSIWYG, and BBW, at least, preceded their internet usage. - An old guy.
Nytebreid
+4
Level 36
May 25, 2014
Agreed - "BBW" has been used in personal ads for ages.
Zefyrinus
+8
Level 74
Jul 5, 2017
I think BFF was an odd one to include in this list.
Nytebreid
+3
Level 36
May 25, 2014
How could one type "rofl" if they're really rolling on the floor laughing?
kalbahamut
+7
Level 79
Nov 22, 2014
and how could they sit in front of their computer if they had laughed their ass off? Mysteries abound.
IsleAuHaulte
+3
Level 92
Jul 7, 2019
Maybe it's just a hemorrhoid.
Sulps
+3
Level 55
Sep 27, 2014
I thought "jk" was the short form of "joke" or "joking". Anyway, the people behind some of these comments don't know this isn't supposed to include only and all the easy ones.
mez
+2
Level 72
Nov 22, 2014
originally it did mean 'joking'.. evolved to the other a few years later
kalbahamut
+4
Level 79
Nov 22, 2014
BBW was being used in Newspaper classifieds as one of 100 different ways to say "fat" before it showed up in Internet chat rooms.
Jonathan
+4
Level 27
Nov 22, 2014
A quiz for the lazy generation!
Mogysht
+2
Level 49
Nov 22, 2014
ASL - can you accept Land for L?
CosmicCalamity
+1
Level 74
Apr 18, 2025
What sense would that make?
Elf
+2
Level 8
Nov 22, 2014
to be honest?

lots of love?

CosmicCalamity
+1
Level 74
Apr 18, 2025
No.
Elf
+3
Level 8
Nov 22, 2014
what the flip
Rosie37
+3
Level 13
Nov 22, 2014
I only knew away from keyboard because of the big bang theory : ) You should of put in YOLO!
Caytra
+2
Level 34
Nov 23, 2014
I've been online for a very long time, and since we only had bulletin boards rofl was roll on floor laughing. That's absurd not to accept it
Rozzi
+3
Level 61
Nov 23, 2014
Fun quiz - though they're not all acronyms and some predate the Internet - otherwise well titled!
MayaB
+2
Level 73
Nov 23, 2014
Arghh! For FWIW I wrote "for what is worth"... One freaking letter too few! And I just figured this out from the acronym - I've never seen it used.
MayaB
+3
Level 73
Jul 17, 2019
5 years later with many more hours online, the only one I missed was PHAT. This and EOM are the abbreviations which I still haven't seen being used, but I got the latter one by guessing.
Sadmin
+3
Level 36
Nov 24, 2014
Where is YOLO?
Sagaris
+3
Level 67
Jul 9, 2019
where is wbyceiydbo?
kitsims
+1
Level 86
Dec 23, 2022
Northern California.
HemmoAU
+1
Level 57
Mar 19, 2026
This quiz came out in October 2011, while Drake's song 'the motto' which popularised the acronym YOLO only came out a month later in November 2011.

Of course, the phrase has been used for much longer: in music, the title of a Strokes song 'You Only Live Once' from 2005; in film, a Fritz Lang flick of the same name from 1937, and; as far back as a 1774 play by Goethe, which included 'man lebt nur einmal'.

kenpo17
+5
Level 65
Nov 24, 2014
I've never encountered PHAT or EOM before, but I got all the other ones.
tom88
+2
Level 77
Feb 12, 2020
Those were the two I missed. I've heard PHAT before but couldn't come up with what it was. EOM makes sense but I've never seen it used.
SilverMoon
+2
Level 14
Nov 25, 2014
Got 16...which is pretty good considering that I don't use chatspeak. Ever. It annoys me.
Sifhraven
+2
Level 76
Jun 12, 2019
I use btw. (And in my own language in textmessages also idd for inderdaad (indeed, which would also fit), an iig for in ieder geval (for sure/in any case/anway/definitely) because they are so long. Ow yea and sometimes wth.
englishsystem
+2
Level 67
Nov 26, 2014
Should make sequel and include DIAF.
joshxgarrett
+5
Level 61
Nov 26, 2014
I'm pretty sure that people stopped using PHAT when everyone stopped using MSN messenger.
jayhiatt
+3
Level 72
Dec 2, 2014
Please, have a turnip.
DeusCaritasEst
+3
Level 54
Jun 10, 2015
Peggy, how about tomorrow?
MaintenanceRequired
+2
Level 6
Dec 6, 2014
Whew, 24/24.
LadyScroop
+3
Level 68
Jan 2, 2015
I am old. The AIM ones I got. The rest, not so much. FTW--F*** the World? ASL--American Sign Language? BBW--Better Be Wary? (PS, do not Google this last one.)
tykgoodey007
+2
Level 62
Jan 15, 2015
why not add nvm as nevermind?!?!?!?!?!?!?
Carry
+3
Level 63
Feb 1, 2016
Not really an acronym though.
D4J0HNM45T3R
+2
Level 75
Jan 31, 2015
You should add ftw in this quiz
sumguy
+3
Level 87
May 11, 2015
20 years on the internet, from chat rooms to bulletin boards to instant messaging to personals, and I have never come across PHAT.
bdhowell
+2
Level 62
Dec 14, 2015
It's because PHAT isn't an internet acronym. Phat is slang for a woman being attractive, first used in the 1970's. It is similar to how "bad" was used to mean "good" in the 80's and 90's. Pretty hot and tempting is a backronym for phat.
Soph1
+2
Level 51
Jan 14, 2017
I had heard of phat but didn't know it was an acronym and hadn't heard of the term backronym so today I have learnt two things!
Sifhraven
+2
Level 76
Jun 12, 2019
Same i have heard of phat (not at all occured to me connecting it to the one in this quiz) but only on a few occasions by people that were trying to be cool and thought it was just a variation of fat.

true story (happened to think about it just this week): at college there was a band playing in the hall of the school and everyone was sitting on the floor. Suddenly I can hear from behind me "i can see your fat silhouette.." that really hurt and the comment haunted me for weeks (I think i immediately went to the bathroom and put a sweater on, i had on something tight, which i usually dont, so was allready very selfaware). I thought why would you go out of your way to offend and hurt someone. It was not like we were face to face talking (which would still be rude but less sociopath...). Years later i thought, maybe he meant it in a good way. I am still not certain..

moparornocar
+3
Level 20
Oct 7, 2015
these are the only examples where the F in the Acronym does not mean F***
th3brick
+2
Level 28
Apr 30, 2016
Doesn't GTG also mean Good to go
leviOsa
+2
Level 36
Apr 24, 2018
This is sad.
rainmaaker
+3
Level 20
Dec 10, 2016
naively wrote American Sign Language to ASL. lol
InfiniteInsanity999
+2
Level 41
Dec 13, 2016
So glad I knew WYSIWYG XD
Sifhraven
+2
Level 76
Jun 12, 2019
I totally guessed it ! And one or two others :)
canadianeh
+2
Level 37
Jun 8, 2017
That's not what I guessed for FTW...
aphrodite
+3
Level 51
Jun 22, 2017
F*@^ the world should really be accepted for ftw even if it doesn't show up as the actual answer. I've never seen anyone use if for for the win
kalbahamut
+3
Level 79
Oct 4, 2017
I've only seen it used to express "for the win." Never seen it your way. .... but how do we really know since you could swap these two phrases all the time and nobody would know.
PickleChicken
+3
Level 42
Dec 12, 2017
You need to add TFW, That Face When
Lucknowite
+2
Level 40
May 30, 2018
wtf also
monkiecat
+4
Level 37
May 30, 2018
and AF, FML, FUBAR... all not allowed.

NSFW should probably be in there though

brandybuck96
+4
Level 82
Feb 7, 2018
Huh, you know you spend too much time on the Internet when you try "idk" as an answer for "idk".
NFLTickets
+4
Level 51
Mar 30, 2018
Most people (I believe) that are Generation Z would translate 'asl' as "As Hell"
blinky
+2
Level 57
Jun 25, 2018
IMHO was around WAY before texts. chatrooms or cellphones.
markthoma
+2
Level 72
Jul 6, 2018
I got them all, acronyms are is one of those stupid things I'm really good at remembering. I'm not up on memes, though. Everyone making the same or similar jokes with the same picture, which tend to be progressively less funny.

I'll posit that peak meme was reached almost immediately with I Can Has Cheezburger, and then it just went downhill as everyone got computer savvy enough to make their own memes.

AnEverydayNerd8
+2
Level 55
Dec 30, 2018
18/24. A lot of these are unfamiliar to me.
JonnyM1988
+2
Level 24
Mar 21, 2019
Oh the days of 'ASL' on MSN chat rooms.... When it took 20 minutes to dial up via modem and you get an hour before it disconnects you (unless someone picked up the phone.)

They were the days... When after that hour, we'd go outside and play blocky, Kirby or football with other kids from the street. Non of this internet gaming malarki!

Lenni
+2
Level 22
Apr 10, 2019
Yo, the quiz did not accept my answer (rolling on floor) even when I wrote it right.
elgrancazador
+3
Level 48
May 23, 2019
For me is seems DM "direct message" is more common than IM
Sifhraven
+6
Level 76
Jun 12, 2019
I really thought bbw was big black woman. Also tried busty..
dgerg94
+3
Level 28
Dec 27, 2019
definitely not what I thought FTW meant XD
Keith38
+4
Level 66
Jan 22, 2020
FTW I did think was F the world. Not even gonna say what I put for BBW.
kalbahamut
+3
Level 79
Mar 21, 2020
buxom besotted wombats?
kalbahamut
+3
Level 79
Mar 21, 2020
or bald bathing weasels?
Xenobiologista
+2
Level 59
Feb 11, 2021
I only knew ASL as American Sign Language, so that didn't work.
MeMeMe333
+1
Level 71
Sep 20, 2025
For all I know, FTW is free tap water...
Jayjaysciz
+1
Level 57
Nov 7, 2021
I'm not that young but dang listening to some of you guys not know all these acronyms is making me feel very young.. Some of you sound like a grumpy old man when someone walks in their yard. It's not lazy to try and write a text, a post or a msg and to want it to be as quick and concise as possible
EvanAviator
+2
Level 61
Jan 9, 2022
im not even an adult and i couldn't get several of these
Terran
+2
Level 71
Mar 21, 2022
I've never heard most of these.
cledun2
+1
Level 95
Apr 4, 2022
Add WWG1WGA
CharityFaith
+1
Level 37
Mar 24, 2023
please tell me I was not the first person to put American Sign Language for ASL :'
Bhanav
+1
Level 57
Jun 28, 2024
Can you accept 'Gotta go' for GTG?
Neodymium
+1
Level 63
Oct 7, 2024
Quiz would be better if some of the less known ones were removed and more modern ones put there. SMH, IKR, IYKYK (perhaps on the more profane side, stfu, wth, af, and wtf) are much more used than some other ones, some of which i've never seen actually used (IM, ASL, IM, PHAT, OTOH, EOM). even OMG or OMW would be better than those imo. lmao also. DM is much better than IM. Also FR (for real). maybe even GOAT. but none of those other ones, unused. Also ty and tysm
Neodymium
+1
Level 63
Oct 11, 2024
also atp (at this point)
Neodymium
+1
Level 63
Dec 3, 2024
lmk
AntimatterYT
+1
Level 55
Jun 22, 2025
mean know only lol and idk
akipopopopooon
+2
Level 81
Jun 28, 2025
did not expect BBW to be on a featured quiz 😭
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