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Old May 30, 2002, 01:24   #1
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Äre you 1££7 ?
So I dont understand it lately. what is up with "sexy kills" and "l33t tards" "ownin jo0". And countless unreadable phrases written on chat bars ; somthing like " ~¦-ƒÆ_£?". Is this a fairly new thing? Who dreams this **** up?
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Old May 30, 2002, 01:32   #2
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Who dreams this **** up?
Pathetic wannabe hackers.
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Old May 30, 2002, 01:38   #3
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really? But whats the point? It just seems so retarded and anti-social.
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Old May 30, 2002, 02:44   #4
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Guess its their way of saying "Look at me! I'm different!"

Most people who speak 1337 aren't exactly the sharpest knives in the drawer either, since most aren't too well educated (thus the less than average command of the English language, despite the fact that it is their 1st language).

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It originated to get around censor programs, or other programs that network admins used that parsed text for certain words. Talking about "ass" over the university network might get you in trouble (to use a very lame example), but a program seeing the word "455" is unlikely to raise any alarms.

However, there are much more intelligent ways to have private conversations these days, and 1337 has been taken over by hacker-wannabe's. Negative attention is still attention.
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Old May 30, 2002, 04:55   #6
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It originated to get around censor programs, or other programs that network admins used that parsed text for certain words. Talking about "ass" over the university network might get you in trouble (to use a very lame example), but a program seeing the word "455" is unlikely to raise any alarms.

However, there are much more intelligent ways to have private conversations these days, and 1337 has been taken over by hacker-wannabe's. Negative attention is still attention.
I have been edubacated.
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It's been going on in the geek scene for years now, and it's slowly creeping into the AOLer lexicon and now kids everywhere are starting to use it

It's mostly an attention/elitist stunt.
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Old May 30, 2002, 06:27   #8
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That site, thankfully, appears to have disappeared.
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Old May 30, 2002, 07:41   #10
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That site, thankfully, appears to have disappeared.
Good riddance to a stupid, ridiculous, senseless waste of webspace. Those of you who missed it, consider yourselves lucky, for there was no punishment worse than visiting it.
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Old May 30, 2002, 08:56   #11
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Old May 30, 2002, 09:40   #12
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Nope - that was the crime not the punishment - read your dostoievski ...

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Nope - that was the crime not the punishment - read your dostoievski ...

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Perhaps that's what happened to the people who were running that site?
Maybe they killed an old pawn-broker with a hatchet, went mad, fell in love with a prostitute and were sent to Siberia where they underwent an epiphany and gradually regained their sanity and happiness through the peace and security of love.
Yeah .. that must be it.
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I hardly have a clue what 1337 and other stuff like that is about. Is it related to software coding or something like that?
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Lately I've been hearing it being called "W***er Speak." I think Gamespy has some generator.
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no l33t 7/-\1/<1/\/ is somthing gaming kiddies use to be different and to show there 'l33t' status. I think its gay if you ask me, but it seems to have swept the gamimg population of the web. Usually in shoot em up games like Rainbow6 and Sony Station you get alot of that.
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They should go into code-making/breaking.
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I hardly have a clue what 1337 and other stuff like that is about. Is it related to software coding or something like that?
No, except that people who write PERL regular expressions might get artistic inspiration from it.
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But 1337 doesn't stand for a certain word either?
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It stands for "leet", which stands for "elite", which, in this context, certainly does not stand for what it is supposed to stand for. See http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/jargon/html/Lamer-speak.html and notice that the word "hacker" doesn't necessarily mean what misguided people think it means - see http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/jargon/ht...ry/hacker.html .
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My website is 1337:

http://kyleaction.l33t.ca

That hosting site is pretty much the only place I regularly see 1337-speak.
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wow thats pretty l33t. How can I be as 1337 az jo0?
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My website is 1337:

http://kyleaction.l33t.ca

That hosting site is pretty much the only place I regularly see 1337-speak.
Why do j00 have a .ca address?
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These 1337-people can really be annoying... it seems like there's something wrong with their attitude against those, who don't speak 1337. Or is my attitude against them the problem?
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Because it seems that this hosting company is actually 2 guys running a server out of their basement somewhere in canada...

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Bad news people, the site is still there. But I think it´s harmless, you do know it´s a spoof-site don´t you?
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Pretty kitty, KrazyHorse. How come no copyright notice on it?
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