XD LOLz: A History of Laughter in Text

Chuckling online is as vintage as the internet itself. Back in the days of emoji and meme-ified faces, we had to get creative with our typed expressions. "XD" showed its face in the mid 90s as a way to express amusement. It was like a text-based representation of bursting with laughter. Then came "LOL" - an abbreviation of "Laughing Out Loud," it

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