Primer on Internet shorthand; Here's a short glossary of chatspeak ... America Online's Instant Messenger system appears to be the biggest.

For those of you who might be new to chat rooms or instant messaging, we've attempted to compile a dictionary of common chat room slang and chat acronyms.

Ms. Brecker once handed in a midterm exam riddled with instant-messaging shorthand. "I had an hour to write an essay on Romeo and Juliet," she said. "I just wanted to finish before my time was up.

Chapter One: The Basics of Instant Messaging.; Chapter Two: Instant Messenger is Not Real Communication.; Chapter Three: IM Etiquette and Sundry Interpersonal Matters.;

Instant message acronym- email abbreviation shorthand list to decipher and translate IM and email messages. ... IM Instant Message;

Modern, Internet-wide, GUI-based messaging clients, as they are known today, began to take off in the mid 1990s with PowWow, then ICQ, followed by AOL Instant Messenger (AOL Instant Messenger,

For folks over 40, the following instant message may look like nothing more than gobbledygook: "#s look gd… lnch @ 1/ back l8r." But for younger employees, it's just simple shorthand for:

''We have a kind of shorthand now,'' says Crowe. ''It's just a matter of, like, 'Right, let's jump into the pool full of cow s---.''' Or in this case, the vat of wine...

As read, the Instant Message medium most closely fits the way users would interact with Eliza. ... It would need to understand many slang/shorthand that is used widely in IM. If it were an information

ICQ, shorthand for "I seek you," uses a software application, ... Not long after AOL bought ICQ, AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) became the IM leader. In the past few years, though, a number of services