• @[email protected]
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    108 months ago

    You’d think so, but that’s been a standard abbreviation around the Internet for at least 5 years.

    • The Pantser
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      78 months ago

      INAL would be less ANALy, I’m Not A Lawyer but I love IANAL because I have to stop and think about butts.

      • ares35
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        108 months ago

        it’s a lot older than that. dates back to usenet, so three decades at least.

        • mars296
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          38 months ago

          Question is when it became “the standard”. We need an internet historian to weigh in.

      • @[email protected]
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        18 months ago

        I figured it was longer, but I couldn’t be bothered to research it, so I could only speak from my own memory.