OMGWTFBBQ!!!11 internets OH NOES

[trinityofone]

I just had to explain to my boss what "*g*" means. I forwarded something to him with a note that said "And I'm coming right in to talk to you about this. *g*" because our offices are right next door and it seemed kind of silly. That was two hours ago. He just called me in to ask, "What does star gee star mean?" And then I had to explain.

What really freaks me out is: he's not that much older than I am. He lives, you know, in the world. Why does he not know this? Is it generally not known? I mean, my dad knows what "*g*" means. Although possibly because I told him. So...does BossMan live in a bubble, or am I completely divorced from reality or like a teeny-bopper net-speaker omg lolz?

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[syrenslure.livejournal.com]

I think it's an older net thing. I use it or more often *smile* or something like that. I remember doing that a lot in chat rooms, back when I spent 20 hours a day in them... not like aol or yahoo, but when there were whole sites set up as big chat communities, before the internet went bust and no one could afford to run them anymore *g* Now people just use the smilies, or the pictoral images that have replaced them - like real smiley faces.
It probably originally comes from IRC or something like that.

[syrenslure.livejournal.com]

Also, not *g* but I used to always use *wg* or *weg* and most people don't know what that means anymore.

(wicked grin and wicked evil grin, respectively)