"FWIW" meaning in English

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Prepositional phrase

Head templates: {{head|en|prepositional phrase|head=}} FWIW, {{en-PP}} FWIW
  1. (Internet slang, text messaging) Initialism of for what it's worth. Tags: Internet, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism Alternative form of: for what it's worth
    Sense id: en-FWIW-en-prep_phrase-hA5B7otQ Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms with placeholder "it"

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          "ref": "1986 August 27, Marc A. Ries, “Re: UNIX v.3 Query”, in net.unix (Usenet), retrieved 2016-07-02, message-ID <1267@trwrb.UUCP>",
          "text": "Supposidly, SVR3 was developed on the 400 line, and ports to the 3B5/15 line are not due out until early next year. FWIW.",
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          "ref": "1986 November 26, Marc A. Ries, “Re: Berkely Unix ported to NCR Tower32”, in comp.unix.wizards (Usenet), retrieved 2020-07-21, message-ID <1441@trwrb.UUCP>",
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