Antedating of "kthxbai"

[Hugo]

"kthxbai" (ATNW: 19 October 2002, Urban Dictionary: 5 Feb 2003)

("Among the New Words" devoted to Internet memes (American Speech, Vol. 86, No. 4, Winter 2011, pp. 454-479)
http://www.academia.edu/1231435/_Among_the_New_Words_American_Speech_Vol._86_No._4_Winter_2011_pp._454-479_ )

ATNW has "kthxbye" from 1998 and "kthxbai" from 2002. This is just about "kthxbai".

---

20 October 2001, alt.games.nintendo.pokemon.hentai, sender: LS, as a subject line:

[Begin]
HELO YHBT KTHXBAI!!!!!!1
[End]

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/alt.games.nintendo.pokemon.hentai/JXT45ivPuzk

YHBT is "you have been trolled".

Hugo

------------------------------------------------------------
The American Dialect Society - http://www.americandialect.org