Way back in the mid 90s, when I was maybe 13 years old, on the way to school my mom would listen to NPR. They had an interview with an expert about the growing problem of internet chat rooms. He explained with great confidence how he had cracked the code and that when someone asked "got any GIFs?" that GIF stood for something like "girls or females".
It was the first time I actually had first hand knowledge about anything they were talking about on the news - and they got it catastrophically wrong.
Way back in the mid 90s, when I was maybe 13 years old, on the way to school my mom would listen to NPR. They had an interview with an expert about the growing problem of internet chat rooms. He explained with great confidence how he had cracked the code and that when someone asked "got any GIFs?" that GIF stood for something like "girls or females".
It was the first time I actually had first hand knowledge about anything they were talking about on the news - and they got it catastrophically wrong.