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[–] 3 points 5 months ago (5 children)

Before us millenials had our own take at inventing initialisms and proto emojis...

Beepers. Pagers.

A fair number of different kinds of 'codes' became at least somewhat widely used as shorthand for more semantically complex things, and they had even smaller character limits.

https://www.wikihow.com/Pager-Codes

Now I was like 5 when pagers were all the rage, so I have no personal experience with these, but this was arguably the gen x version of millenials who spent too much time on computers as children coming up with 'gtfo' and 'lmao' and 'rofl' and such.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (3 children)

    GenX here. Yeah I remember beepers being all the rage in a brief window of time, just before cell phones took off. They were called "Minicall" here in Sweden.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago* (2 children)

    Huh! It never occurred to me that there would be other funny/cute nicknames for them in other languages, but... duh, obviously, of course there would be.

    Neat!

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