I don't understand internet slang

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As a completely irrelevant statistic, Wikipedia's List of Internet slang phrases gives 237 definitions.
A single one of those (that I'd never come across) ends with BBQ, for no apparent reason.
That's one of the INT(SQRT(237)) that include "f*ck" in the definition.
Of those I knew four and use about one, rarely.
What does "For The Win" mean?

Yeah ^^

Some people say stuff like "OMGWTFBBQ"

By the way, For The Win basically just means "Yay it is awesome" or that is totally owns, I believe

Has anyone figured out what ZOMG means? I haven't figured that one out. It took me a while to figure out what all the internet acronyms meant. One time when I was on IM someone said ASL and I was like what? Age Sex Location!

I hardly use the lingo myself except for the occasional LOL, WTF and OMG.

ZOMG is just another way people say 'OMG' ^^

Forgot another usefull one

IIRC: If I Remember Correctly.

Oh! And how about YMBAAI?

Another site for deciphering internet slang (and real-world slang) is http://www.urbandictionary.com
Anyone can add to it though so some of the definitions are just jokes. But there are multiple definitions for each word and usually you can spot the serious ones out of the mix.

I think the nonsensical BBQ is added to other acronyms to poke fun at people who use too many acronyms.

ZOMG usually seems to be a form of OMG but with a sarcastic or mocking tone, or making fun of people who say OMG too much. According to UrbanDictionary the Z originally resulted from someone mis-typing Z instead of shift when writing OMG once.

I find internet slang both annoying and amusing at the same time. For gamers who need to type quickly during fast-paced multiplayer games it makes more sense but I think many people use it too much in general chat purely out of laziness. LOL is ubiquitous and about the only one I use sometimes but it is overused a lot by some people. If someone puts LOL after each sentence it just looks completely absurd to me. If you translated it to a real-life conversation they would sound like a crazy person laughing all the time.

Some of it really annoys me but I'm a gamer and love using the internet so I've grown to accept it.

Meaning?

YMBAAI

Now most of you are confusing me...

YMBAAI = "You might be an aspie if..."

I had to google that - I had never seen that one before this thread.

I grok some slang.
(No I didn't just make that up)

Would you like a glass of water?

Google it! Dah