XD LOLZ: A HISTORY OF LAUGHTER IN TEXT

Laughing online is as old-school as the internet itself. Back before emoji and meme-ified faces, we had to get wild with our typed expressions. "XD" popped up in the early 90s as a way to express amusement. It was like the ASCII equivalent of laughing out loud. Then came "LOL" - an abbreviation of "Laughing Out Loud," it quickly took over the int