A History of Short Words

From the New York Times Crossword Puzzle

DOTS

Sun, 17 Aug '25
...
Wed, 21 Aug '24
What houses resemble from an airplane
Wed, 24 Jul '24
Symbols of an in-progress text
Thu, 9 May '24
Pointillism marks
Tue, 23 Aug '22
They precede com, org and edu
Wed, 2 Mar '22
Big name in little gumdrops
Wed, 8 Dec '21
Pointillism features
Mon, 4 Oct '21
Parts of i's and j's
Wed, 28 Jul '21
Signal that a reply is coming in a messaging app
Sun, 6 Jun '21
Bits of hijinks?