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I maintain my own set of modern internet acronyms for it. Speaking of which, I need to merge a pull request for that.

There was a super helpful Internet jargon list maintained by one of the 3-letter federal agencies, obtained through an FOIA request I believe... I used to refer to it whenever I needed to decipher confusing twitter conversations.

Are you talking about the Jargon File by any chance.

http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/index.html

The Jargon File is maintained by esr, which is 3 letters, but I don't think he's a federal agency. ;-)

We can neither confirm nor deny that he's a federal agency.

This one?

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/nze74k/the-fbi-bu...

I would love to merge that into Arch's wtf, but it is just a collection of scanned images. No text.

https://archive.org/stream/FBIGuideToInternetSlang/Internet%... has OCR-ed text, but the quality is poor.

https://github.com/matthewspencer/twitter-shorthand has transcription of the first 22 pages.

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