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.
See also
- Abstract
- Attention economy
- Attention span
- BLUF – bottom line up front
- Information overload
- Internet culture
References
- ^ "Oxford Dictionaries Online quarterly update: new words added to oxforddictionaries.com today". OxfordWords blog. Oxford University Press. 28 August 2013. Archived from the original on 2013-08-28.
TL;DR, abbrev.: 'too long didn't read': used as a dismissive response to a lengthy online post, or to introduce a summary of a lengthy post.
- ^ "tl;dr". Oxford English Dictionary (Online ed.). Oxford University Press. (Subscription or participating institution membership required.)
- "tl;dr". Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary. Merriam-Webster.
- Johnson, Dave. "What does TLDR mean? Understanding the internet shorthand for lengthy text and its various uses". Business Insider. Retrieved 2023-12-06.
- Peckham, Aaron (2009-01-01). Mo' Urban Dictionary: Ridonkulous Street Slang Defined. Andrews McMeel Publishing. ISBN 978-0-7407-8892-5.
- Pogue, David (2009-08-15). World According to Twitter. Running Press. ISBN 978-1-60376-173-4.
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