kind of funny that we all know this to mean "in real life". was this acronym started in e2025? or is this a general 90s internet term known well outside of this community?


(anticipates a trife post about other potential meanings of irl)

LAME!

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=IRL

http://www.dailydot.com/.../me-irl-internet-history/

although I wouldn't be surprised if it was first said on BRE

i dunno about that.. but first time i saw FTW.. i was like hell yea fluff the world... that person called me a old biker hippie.... then told me it ment For the Win

lol

took me awhile to realize "OMG" meant "Obama Must Go"

irl was likely spawned in the aol chat rooms like so many other terrible things back in those days

For the win?

wtf .... I always assumed it was fluff the World lol

We even had an FTW division in Ragnarok.

have no clue when and where it started, but I do know it was definitely used in Aol chat rooms back in the 90's.