XD LOLZ: A HISTORY OF LAUGHTER IN TEXT

Chuckling online is as old-school as the internet itself. Back before emoji and meme-ified faces, we had to get creative with our typed expressions. "XD" popped up in the mid 90s as a way to express amusement. It was like a text-based representation of bursting with laughter. Then came "LOL" - short for "Laughing Out Loud," it here quickly became