TL;DR
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TL;DR or tl;dr, short for "'''too long; didn't read'''", is internet slang often used to introduce a summary of an online post or news article. It is also used as an informal interjection commenting that a block of text has been ignored due to its length.
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TL;DR or tl;dr, short for "'''too long; didn't read'", is internet slang often used to introduce a summary of an online post or news article. It is also used as an informal interjection commenting that a block of text has been ignored due to its length.
== History == The phrase dates back to at least 2002. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, its earliest known use was in a 2002 message posted on the Usenet newsgroup rec.games.video.nintendo. In 2009, the term appeared in Mo' Urban Dictionary: Ridonkulous Street Slang Defined'', a publication based on online crowdsourced slang database Urban Dictionary. Also in 2009, it was listed as a slang acronym in David Pogue's tweet anthology World According to Twitter. The term was added to the Oxford Dictionaries Online in 2013.
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