XD LOLZ: A HISTORY OF LAUGHTER IN TEXT

Laughing online is as old-school as the internet itself. Back during emoji and meme-ified faces, we had to get wild with our typed expressions. "XD" showed its face in the mid 90s as a way to communicate amusement. It was like a text-based representation of bursting with laughter. Then came "LOL" - short for "Laughing Out Loud," it quickly took o