Internet Slangs and Acronyms

AAK     Alive And Kicking
AAR     At Any Rate
AAS     Alive And Smiling
ADN     Any Day Now
AFAIK     As Far As I Know
AFK     Away From the Keyboard
AFN     that's All For Now
AOTA     All Of The Above
a/s/l or asl     Age/Sex/Location - (used to ask a chatter their personal information)
AV     Avatar - Graphical representation (a picture) often used in chat rooms to depict a person that is in the room and chatting.
b4     Before
BAK     Back At Keyboard (I'm back)
BBL     Be Back Later
BBS     Be Back Soon
BCNU     I'll Be Seeing You.
b/f     Boyfriend (also shown as bf, B/F, or BF)
BEG     Big Evil Grin
BFN     Bye For Now
BMA     Bite My A** (became popular with the Simpson's cartoon show)
boot     To get kicked out of a chat room, or have to restart the computer because you couldn't talk in the chat room anymore.
BR     Best Regards
BRB     Be Right Back
BRH     Be Right Here
BSEG     Big S**t Eatin Grin
BTA     But Then Again....
BTW     By The Way
btw     BeTWeen you and me ...
chat room     A web page where people gather using software that allows them to talk to one another in real time.
CRS     Can't Remember S**t
CU     See You - also posted as cya
CUS     Can't Understand S**t (stuff)
CNP     Continued in Next Post (seen more on message boards than chat)
CP     Chat Post
CUL8R     See You Later
CUOL     See You On Line
CYA     See Ya
dd, ds, dh     Darling or Dear: Dear Son, Dear Daughter, or Dear Husband.  Usually exchanged in family chats.
DDSOS     Different Day, Same Old S**t
DEGT     Don't Even Go There (I don't want to talk about it)
DIKU     Do I Know You?
DIS     Did I Say
D/L, DL, d/l, dl     Downloading, or Download it.
EG     Evil Grin
EM     E-Mail
EMA     E-mail Address (example: ?ema or ema? = what is your email address)
EOT     End Of Thread (meaning end of discussion)
ez or EZ     easy (one of the really old ones)
F2F     Face To Face
FAQ     Frequently Asked Question
FISH     First In Still Here (someone who is on line TOO much)
FITB     Fill In The Blanks
flame     to insult someone.  Used when a person asks a stupid question, or says something rude to irritate the users of a chat room or message board.
FOCL     Falling Off Chair - Laughing
forum     What todays message boards are called.  Often using php as defining language to quickly write 'real time' messages and replies to a web site (or page)
FTS     F*** This S***
fu     f*** you (If you can't figure this one out, you shouldn't be on line)
FUBAR     "Fouled" Up Beyond All Repair / Recognition
FUD     Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt
FWIW     For What It's Worth
FYI     For Your Information
GA     Go Ahead
GAL     Get A Life
gest     Gesture ... a small multimedia file played over the internet, usually expressing an emotion or comment.
g/f     Girlfriend (also shown as gf, G/F, or GF)
GFN     Gone For Now
GGOH     Gotta Get Outta Here
GMTA     Great Minds Think Alike
GR     Gotta Run
GR&D     Grinning, Running, and Ducking.
GTR     Got To Run
GTRM     Going To Read Mail (leaving chat room to check email)
H&K     Hugs and Kisses
hack     person who breaks into software, or disrupts a chat room.
HAGD     Have A Good Day
HAGO     Have A Good One
Halsoft     Name of a company that purchased the brand of Chat that Excite offered, now a pay as you go service.
HB     Hurry Back
Hosts     Refers to the people that are running the chat room, they usually have the ability to kick a person off due to rude behavior.
HTH     Hope That Helps
huggles     Hugs
IAC     In Any Case
IB     I'm Back
IC     I See
IDN     I Don't kNow
IDK     I Don't Know
IDTS     I Don't Think So
IANAL     I'm Am Not A Lawyer (expect an uninformed opinion)
IC     I See
ICQ     I Seek You.  A computer program used to communicate instantly over the Internet.
ILU or ILY     I Love You
IM     Instant Message
IMHO     In My Humble Opinion (or In My Honest Opinion)
IMO     In My Opinion
IOH     I'm Out of Here
IOW     In Other Words
IRL     In Real Life
IYO     In Your Opinion
JAS     Just A Second
JIC     Just In Case
JK     Just Kidding
JMO     Just My Opinion
JW     Just Wondering
k, K, or kk     O. K.
KIT     Keep In Touch
L8R     Later (an early one, kind of outdated with current 'young geeks')
LMAO     Laughing My Ass Off
LFFAO     Laughing My F***(freaking) Ass Off
LOL     Laughing Out Loud
LTNS     Long Time No See
LTS     Laughing To ones Self
LY     I Love Ya.
LYL     Love You Lots
Message Board.     A web page where people write comments, and those comments are than added to that web-page for others to view.  Used to carry on conversation, request information, and relay messages.
MUG     Refers to a new user of that chat program, goes back to Excite VP days when the AV (or icon) that represented someone new was a picture of a coffee mug.
NE1     Anyone
newbie     refers to a person who is new to an area or technology.  Also seen as nube, nooby, nubie, nb, etc.
NFW     No Feasible (or F***ing) Way
NIMBY     Not In My Back Yard
nm, or NM     Never Mind
NP, np     No Problem
NRN     1. No Response Necessary
2. Not Right Now
NT     No Thanks
OBTW     Oh, By The Way.
OIC     Oh, I See
OF     Old Fart, someone who has been around for a while.
OJ or OK     Only Joking or Only Kidding
OL     the Old Lady
OM     the Old Man
OMG     Oh My Gosh (although it's usually used with the Lords name in place of "gosh")
OT     Off Topic
oth or OTH     Off The Hook: Something is really popular, or hot.  Very exciting.
otr or OTR     Off The Rack: Saying that something is outside the ordinary.
OTE     Over The Edge (beyond common sense or beyond good taste)
OTOH     On The Other Hand ...
OTOMH     Off the Top of My Head ...
OTW     On The Way ... I've sent a file to you, it's "On the way"
P911     My parents are in the room.  P=Parents, and 911=emergency, in other words either drop the subject, or watch the language.
PANS     Pretty Awesome New Stuff (often referring to computer technology)
PCMCIA     Personal Computer Memory Cards International Association
PCMCIA     People Can't Master Computer Industry Acronyms (slang)
PEBCAK     Problem Exists Between Chair And Keyboard
peeps     People. example: "There sure are a lot of peeps in this room" - meaning a lot of people are in the chat room.
peep this     Hey, listen to this, I've got some interesting news.
PITA     Pain In The Ass
PLZ     Please
PMJI     Pardon Me for Jumping In (when you enter into a new conversation)
poof     when someone leaves a chat room, often seen as *poof* as in boy he *poofed* in a hurry.
POTS     Plain Old Telephone Service
POS     Parents are looking Over my Shoulder.
POTS     Parents Over The Shoulder - (My parents are watching, I can't really talk)
PPL     People
QT     Cutie
RFC     Request For Comments (used more in newsgroups, a page or pages that supply technical information)
rl or RL     Real Life (as opposed to being online)
r m or RM     Ready Made: pre-existing
ROFL     Rolling On Floor, Laughing
ROTF     Rolling On The Floor (laughing is implied)
ROTFLMAO     Rolling On The Floor Laughing My Ass Off
ROTFLMFAO     Rolling On The Floor Laughing F(***ing) My Ass Off
RSN     Real Soon Now
r/t     Real Time (also: RT, or rt)
RTFM     Read The "Flippin" Manual (response to beginner question on net, chat, newsgroups, etc.)
RU     aRe yoU?
SEG     Shit Eating Grin
SH     Same Here
SMS     Short Message Service (more cell phones and pagers than chat rooms and the Internet)
SN     Screen Name.  The name or moniker selected by person in an IM or chat program.  ex: My "SN" in vp was "-lone.wolf"
SNAFU     Situation Normal, All "Fouled" Up
SO     Significant Other
SOL     Shit Out Of Luck
SOS     Same Old S**t (stuff)
SOTA     State Of The Art (latest technology)
SPST     Same Place, Same Time
SSDD     Same S**t, Different Day
STR8     Straight (can refer to sex, or DSTR8 as in Damn Straight)
STW     Search The Web
SY     Sincerely Yours
SYL     See You Later
TAFN     That's All For Now
TC     Take Care
TFH     Thread From Hell (a topic or discussion that won't stop - esp. newsgroups)
TGIF     Thank Goodness It's Friday
THX     Thanks!
TIA     Thanks In Advance
TM     Text Message (often refers to communications with text over cell phones)
TMI     Too Much Info. (information)
TNT     'Til Next Time
TPS     That's Pretty Stupid
TPTB     The Powers That Be (can sometimes refer to the people that are running the chat room or server)
TRDMF     Tears Running Down My Face: Can be with either laughter, or due to saddness.
TS     Tough S**t
TSFY     Tough S**t For You
TTFN     Ta-Ta For Now
TTTT     These Things Take Time
TTYL     Talk To You Later
TY     Thank You
TYT     Take Your Time
TYVM     Thank You Very Much
VPPH     Virtual Places Page Host
US     You Suck
usa or USA     Until Sides Ache:  Usually used with one of the laughter acronyms such as "lolusa" Laughing Out Loud Until my Sides Ache.  I've also heard that some folks substitute ush for "Until Sides Hurt".  rotflolush = rolling on the floor, laughing out loud, until my sides hurt.
UV     Unpleasant Visual
UW     yoU're Welcome
UY     Up Yours
vp or VP     Virtual Places: A brand of chat offered by Excite in the late 90s and early 2000.
WB     Welcome Back (you say this when someone returns to a chat room)
WC     WelCome
WEG     Wicked Evil Grin
WEU     What's Eating You?
WFM     Works For Me
WIIFM     What's In It For Me?
WTG     Way To Go
WTF     What The F**K
WT?     What The ...? or Who the ...?
WTGP?     Want To Go Private? (move to a private chat room)
WWJD     What Would Jesus Do?
YAA     Yet Another Acronym
YBS     You'll Be Sorry
YL     Young Lady
YM     Young Man
YMMV     Your Mileage May Vary
YR     Yea, Right.  (sarcastic)
*ys*     You Stinker
YVW     You're Very Welcome
YW     You're Welcome