QuickCheck: Did a retired naval officer come up with 'OMG' in 1917?

OMG – short for “Oh My God” - is something we see everywhere in our modern world; we see it in emails, on social media, whenever we talk to people on WhatsApp, Telegram or other forms of communication such as SMSes.

It has become ingrained in the fabric of our daily life and fits our modern world so well that it has to be a phrase of the electronic age.