[Air-L] BFF

[Conor Schaefer]

Earliest results in the Wayback Machine for Urbandictionary.com are in 
2002. I don't know how authoritatively one can conclude from this that 
Urbandictionary was born around that time, but it's interesting to me 
all the same.

 From the Wikipedia page, I see that Urbandictionary was founded on Oct 
14, 2001, meaning that a BFF entry must have be added almost 
immediately, so it was obviously a popular term at the time.


I think we're all agreed the term massively predates the internet. I'm 
just having fun with other things, now. =)

Conor

lilly nguyen wrote:
> I can say with conviction that this term predates the internet. My  
> junior high days (this probably dates me) the expressions and  
> "BFF" (or its shortened version F/F for friends forever) "j/k," "KIT"  
> peppered all our notebooks and yearbooks. I imagine that most  
> yearbooks from the early 90s onwards would be abound with these  
> expressions, however I grew up in southern California and am unsure  
> if these terms were in common use throughout the country at the same  
> time. In the Urban Dictionary, the earliest entry for BFF comes from  
> 2001. http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=bff
>
> -lilly
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> On Sep 30, 2007, at 11:12 PM, Jimmy Wales wrote:
>
>   
>> NANCY MCDONALD-KNWRTHY wrote:
>>     
>>> "Best Friends Forever" from a South Park tv show episode:
>>>
>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Best_Friends_Forever
>>>       
>> The abbreviation is older than that episode, which aired in March  
>> 2005,
>> though:
>> Cyber bullies stalking online playground.
>>
>> Candy J. Cooper
>> The Record (Bergen County, N.J.)
>> Apr. 21, 2004 10:45 AM
>>
>> "Conflict escalates quickly online, where facial expression and voice
>> intonation are replaced by "jk," for just kidding, or "lol," for  
>> laughing
>> out loud. Matters are complicated when two "bff's," or best friends  
>> forever
>> in cyber-slang, share one another's passwords, as girls often do.  
>> When the
>> falling-out comes, they can wreak havoc by sending damaging messages
>> everywhere - with their new enemy's name attached. "
>>
>> I have no idea how much older it might be than that.
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> Lilly Nguyen
> PhD Student, Dept. of Information Studies
> lillynguyen at ucla.edu
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