XD LOLZ: A HISTORY OF LAUGHTER IN TEXT

Chuckling online is as ancient as the internet itself. Back in the days of emoji and meme-ified faces, we had to get creative 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 laughing out loud. Then came "LOL" - an abbreviation of "Laughing Out Loud," it