What Does This Mean?
"Too long; didn't read" — a prefix or suffix added to a long post to flag a condensed summary for readers who won't read the whole thing, now standard shorthand across forums, workplaces, and ordinary writing.
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REAL-WORLD EXAMPLE
"TL;DR: the plan changed, meet at the other location instead."
LORE & ORIGIN
Forum shorthand tracked back to at least 2003 across early web communities like Something Awful and FARK, one of the oldest surviving pieces of internet acronym vocabulary.
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