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From:	TheRealLordNikon (cpe-24-25-184-122.maine.res.rr.com)
Subject:	Re: Dumb question, but what do "ISO" and "LOL"- here you go
Date:	October 11, 2005 at 3:11 am PST

In Reply to: Dumb question, but what do "ISO" and "LOL" stand for in web-speak?? nt posted by Frannie on May 1, 2002 at 7:45 am:

Hi there,

I have been on the net for damn..... since I was somewhere around age 6, back in the day of when Commodore Amigas were the latest and greatest, (with baud speeds of like 300, 600, 900, 1200, 2400) put up next to a i386 or Cyrix, or what was AMD's chip then?

Anywho, I figured I'd chime in on this one because of my years on the net, and the fact that I'll probably never see this thread again, since I stumbled across it via an ask.com search.

On to the answer.... drumroll please....

NT (also NM) is NOT network tech, unless used in a techie forum, then it could very well mean that, but since this seems like a general forum, more than likely the ones who said "No Text" or "No [body] Message" hit the nail on the head.

LOL - since the Compuserve days (before they merged with AO[get a real ISP(Internet Service Provider for those who don't know)]L[or simply AOL]), has meant L.augh (or laughs, originally) O.ut L.oud, which originated in a large number of chat rooms on both services, as well as IRC(Internet Relay Chat), and ICQ(Internet Chat Query [Query because of the way the chat client worked - every time you received a message, you would be notified, and it would get queried to your contact list until you were ready to read it]). In fact, I'd be so daring as to say it DID originate in IRC, where, as for example, I would type in the command "/me LOL" (if I'm remembering correctly) and the text, printed in the chat room, would be "*TheRealLordNikon laughs out loud!"

On to ISO - International Organization for Standardization (www.iso.org). When recording, or burning, CDs, there is a set standard for how the data gets burned to the disc, via the software, to make the actual data layout for the disc. Hence, ISO-9660, or more simply put, a "CD format" set forth by ISO. Another example is that I'm installing Gentoo Linux as I type this. There is a set standard for how each locale is set up on the system (i.e. USA, Denmark, Germany, Russia, etc..), and for that standard they use ISO-8559-N (N being whatever number represents the locale the file is for).

I'll be honest - NT, N/T, NM are pretty new to me, as I don't visit any forums all that much (too much drama, mostly), but I'm still pretty familiar with them. As for the rest, my answer for LOL comes from history and experience, and ISO is simply fact, even if I didn't totally word it correctly - you can check that website for more info on it.

Sorry, this is lengthy, but I hope it helps clear a little bit up for you, and if your confused, just hit a few search engines for the items I mentioned, and you'll see what I mean.

Catch ya later, maybe.
-TRLN

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