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I maintain my own set of modern internet acronyms for it. Speaking of which, I need to merge a pull request for that.

• coverband 8y ago
  There was a super helpful Internet jargon list maintained by one of the 3-letter federal agencies, obtained through an FOIA request I believe... I used to refer to it whenever I needed to decipher confusing twitter conversations.
  • hashhar 8y ago
    Are you talking about the Jargon File by any chance. http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/index.html http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/index.html
    • jwilk 8y ago
      The Jargon File is maintained by esr, which is 3 letters, but I don't think he's a federal agency. ;-)
      • dgivney 8y ago
        We can neither confirm nor deny that he's a federal agency.
  • jwilk 8y ago
    This one? https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/nze74k/the-fbi-built-the-most-comprehensive-list-of-twitter-slang-weve-ever-seen https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/nze74k/the-fbi-bu...
    • keenerd 8y ago
      I would love to merge that into Arch's wtf, but it is just a collection of scanned images. No text.
      • jwilk 8y ago
        https://archive.org/stream/FBIGuideToInternetSlang/Internet%20Slang_djvu.txt https://archive.org/stream/FBIGuideToInternetSlang/Internet%... has OCR-ed text, but the quality is poor. https://github.com/matthewspencer/twitter-shorthand https://github.com/matthewspencer/twitter-shorthand has transcription of the first 22 pages.