Adm. Jackie Fisher, inventor of the OMG

CCIP · 08-11-12, 02:49 PM

...along with a little ship called the Dreadnought

Apparently the earliest documented use of one of today's most popular internet acronyms has been found in one of his letters to Churchill:
http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2012/08...first-omg.html

...to which Churchill replied "LOL"

I guess the internet hasn't changed our language that much, huh

Oberon · 08-11-12, 03:49 PM

Imagine the others:

"OMG our ships sux, n00bs."

"You spin me right round, lol. Wait, WTF, h4x!"

"LOL, pwnd your fleet. Now lets go home."

Dowly · 08-11-12, 04:31 PM

Before someone else posts it

If World War II Was an RTS

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CCIP Navy Seal Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Waterloo, Canada Posts: 8,700 Downloads: 29 Uploads: 2	Adm. Jackie Fisher, inventor of the OMG ...along with a little ship called the Dreadnought Apparently the earliest documented use of one of today's most popular internet acronyms has been found in one of his letters to Churchill: http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2012/08...first-omg.html ...to which Churchill replied "LOL" I guess the internet hasn't changed our language that much, huh __________________ There are only forty people in the world and five of them are hamburgers. -Don Van Vliet (aka Captain Beefheart)

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Oberon Lucky Jack Join Date: Jul 2002 Posts: 25,976 Downloads: 61 Uploads: 20	Imagine the others: "OMG our ships sux, n00bs." "You spin me right round, lol. Wait, WTF, h4x!" "LOL, pwnd your fleet. Now lets go home."

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