FWIW

For what it's worth.

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FWIW

"For what it's worth." See digispeak.

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Telegraph operators in the mid-19th century used abbreviations such as IMHO ("In my humble opinion") and FWIW ("For what it's worth") when communicating among themselves, according to the 1998 book "The Victorian Internet" by Tom Standage.

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* FWIW: for what it's worth BBR: burnt beyond repair.

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Other abbreviations include FWIW to mean For What It's Worth.

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