Äre you 1££7 ?

faded glory · May 30, 2002, 01:24

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?

Jethro83 · May 30, 2002, 01:32

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Originally posted by faded glory
Who dreams this **** up?

Pathetic wannabe hackers.

faded glory · May 30, 2002, 01:38

really? But whats the point? It just seems so retarded and anti-social.

Jethro83 · May 30, 2002, 02:44

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).

Skanky Burns · May 30, 2002, 02:53

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.

Sarxis · May 30, 2002, 04:55

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Originally posted by Skanky Burns
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.

Asher · May 30, 2002, 04:56

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.

Scouse Gits · May 30, 2002, 06:27

The poor souls ...

See also http://apolyton.net/forums/showthrea...highlight=1337
and
www.1337.co.uk

SG[1]

Chowlett · May 30, 2002, 06:46

That site, thankfully, appears to have disappeared.

Jethro83 · May 30, 2002, 07:41

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Originally posted by Chowlett
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.

Immortal Wombat · May 30, 2002, 08:56

except perhaps running it

Scouse Gits · May 30, 2002, 09:40

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

SG[1]

Solver · May 30, 2002, 10:33

Yeah, thanks God it's gone. I visited it while it was there - I had a very bad feeling, as if I just lost all my CDs.

FrustratedPoet · May 30, 2002, 10:50

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Originally posted by Scouse Gits
Nope - that was the crime not the punishment - read your dostoievski ...

SG[1]

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.

Immortal Wombat · May 30, 2002, 11:01

I tried reading my Dostoievski, but found it immensely dull after the first few chapters. So I went back to Gulliver's Travels.

Colon™ · May 30, 2002, 12:26

I hardly have a clue what 1337 and other stuff like that is about. Is it related to software coding or something like that?

Apocalypse · May 30, 2002, 12:30

Lately I've been hearing it being called "W***er Speak." I think Gamespy has some generator.

faded glory · May 30, 2002, 12:34

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.

Dauphin · May 30, 2002, 13:14

They should go into code-making/breaking.

Ari Rahikkala · May 30, 2002, 13:45

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Originally posted by Colon
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.

Colon™ · May 30, 2002, 13:59

But 1337 doesn't stand for a certain word either?

Ari Rahikkala · May 30, 2002, 14:04

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 .

ixnay · May 30, 2002, 18:29

My website is 1337:

http://kyleaction.l33t.ca

That hosting site is pretty much the only place I regularly see 1337-speak.

faded glory · May 30, 2002, 20:17

wow thats pretty l33t. How can I be as 1337 az jo0?

KrazyHorse · May 30, 2002, 23:39

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Originally posted by ixnay37
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?

aaglo · May 31, 2002, 01:23

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?