But hey, at least we can keep the past alive ourselves, right? 1.
Why did they fall out of favor? Largely because they were pegged to technology or social conventions that are now outmoded. which, to me, defeats the whole purpose of using an acronym in the first place.Īside from the aforementioned still-common favorites, many acronyms that were ubiquitous in the '90s are rarely encountered today. Acronyms are meant to save time and improve efficiency by shortening the number of characters you have to type, but in actual speech, “BRB” and “be right back” have the same number of syllables. I'll be honest: I've never understood the point of saying an acronym out loud to another person. LOL is still widely used, for example, as are OMG, IMO, and JK - and indeed, they've gotten even more pervasive, popping up not just online, but also in text messages and sometimes even in real life. Obviously there are still a metaphorical boatload of tech-based acronyms we use today. This means that I also grew up fluent in a huge number of '90s Internet acronyms, mamy of which have now been lost to the sands of time. I've commented many times on the fondness I feel for the early Internet as someone who was born in the mid-'80s, I grew up right alongside the “Information Superhighway,” as it was frequently referred to back then.
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