What is the meaning of those Internet terms that PhinisheD posters sometimes use?
Unlike many other World Wide Web message boards, PhinisheD is very light on the use of Internet jargon. Occasionally, though, such terms do crop up. Those seen most often are: • LOL: “laughing out loud” • LMAO: “laughing my a** off” • ROTFL: “rolling on the floor laughing” • YMMV: “your mileage may vary” (i.e. things might be different for you) • BTW: “by the way” • BRB: “be right back” (used in the chat room.) In addition, one might also see the following terms–common to Internet message boards and newsgroups–used at PhinisheD: • lurk (verb): to read posts on a message board regularly without responding to those posts or adding posts of one’s own. • lurker (noun): someone who reads posts on a message board regularly without responding or adding posts of his/her own. (Not all lurkers are folks who have never posted; people who ordinarly post often lurk during periods when they are too busy to post.) • delurk (verb): to begin posting after a period of lurking. • newbie (noun): someone
