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Re:Amazon.com Homepage (1999) by sokoloff on Monday January 24, 2022 @05:54PM (#30065244)
That led me to ask “when did tl;dr get coined?” and it seems likely after 1999.

https://www.howtogeek.com/435266/what-does-tldr-mean-and-how... claims early 2000s

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Re:Amazon.com Homepage (1999) by mhink on Monday January 24, 2022 @06:48PM (#30065839)
Really?! I'm actually kinda surprised, I would have guessed it's a much more recent abbreviation than that. I think I only started seeing it around 2010 or so.
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Re:Amazon.com Homepage (1999) by Mezzie on Monday January 24, 2022 @07:14PM (#30066072)
"tl;dr" was around when I hung out on LiveJournal, so definitely pre-2010. This would have been around '01-'06.
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Re:Amazon.com Homepage (1999) by shitloadofbooks on Monday January 24, 2022 @07:59PM (#30066472)
Anecdotally I remember first encountering it on the Something Awful forums. I always assumed it originated there (like lots of stuff did in the early 2000s).
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