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You're not paying by the letter, son. Use your real words.
Ok boomer
You do realize that this is /c/90s_memes right? In the 90’s people didnt abbreviate every word longer than 5 characters.
Are you forgetting SMS speak? People used to have 160 characters or less
You think we were texting in the 90s?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMS
1993 feels VERY 90's to me for some reason.
Also I distinctly remember Nokia phones even before the 3310
Did you read the article? It was barely used until 2000.
Well excuse me for being from the Nordics where it was adopted early
Just saying it doesn’t work as a reason to abbreviate everything in this meme. 🤷♀️
These TVs coexisted with abbreviated texting in Sweden
Ok?
pagers dude
911!
1177 700 711730 70 1231773177 40111 00 7415
In the 90s it wasn't 2025
In the 90s, those were your mom's numbers. Waist size, weigt in kilos, body count. 2025. These are 90s jokes btw.
But we had the best 1337 haxxors.
You mean "k boomr"?
How dare you call him son, he is clearly from the colonial era where they had to pay by the letter at the printing house.
This is why American English has a lot of simplified words.