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afk |
3 definitions found From Jargon File (4.2.3, 23 NOV 2000) [jargon]: AFK [MUD] Abbrev. for "Away From Keyboard". Used to notify others that you will be momentarily unavailable online. eg "Let's not go kill that frost giant yet I need to go AFK to make a phone call". Often MUDs will have a command to politely inform others of your absence when they try to talk with you The term is not restricted to MUDs, however, and has become common in many chat situations, from IRC to Unix talk. From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (13 Mar 01) [foldoc]: AFKaway from keyboard. From V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms 13 March 2001 [vera]: AFK Away from Keyboard (slang, Usenet, IRC)
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