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Offline DREDger

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« on: January 25, 2007, 06:28:17 PM »
Anyone know where this came from?  Its newspeak for elite, but it is lower case L, 3, 3, 7

l337
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« Reply #1 on: January 25, 2007, 06:34:20 PM »
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Re: Elite= l337
« Reply #2 on: January 25, 2007, 07:01:38 PM »
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Anyone know where this came from?  Its newspeak for elite, but it is lower case L, 3, 3, 7

l337


n00b alert!
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Offline Gunslinger

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« Reply #3 on: January 25, 2007, 07:28:25 PM »
wow, welcome to the intardnet!
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« Reply #4 on: January 25, 2007, 07:37:56 PM »
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wow, welcome to the intardnet!


lol pwnd
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« Reply #5 on: January 25, 2007, 10:30:47 PM »
wow, welcome to the intardnet!

There is a difference betwen knowing what it means vs. where it came from or how it came into being.
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« Reply #6 on: January 25, 2007, 10:41:13 PM »
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wow, welcome to the intardnet!

There is a difference betwen knowing what it means vs. where it came from or how it came into being.


Now in my case I'm the total noob. I can't even read it nor do I know what it means ( before I read the wikopedia link ).

Actually, to be totaly honest about it, I really don't care to know. If someone wants to comunicate with me they need to do it in either English or Portuguese. If they don't care to use either, they are not talking to me so therefore it ceases to be of any concern to me.

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« Reply #7 on: January 26, 2007, 02:38:21 AM »
the wikipedia appears to leave out the answer to your question DREDger:

As I understand it, 1337 came about so that in the early days of the internet hackers and people that didn't want their news groups and such picked up with a simple word search started replacing certain vowels with numbers such as E =3 and A=4

then after this the wiki fills in the rest.

hope this helps and also hope that my memory is right :-)
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« Reply #8 on: January 26, 2007, 03:03:40 AM »
1337 i5 73h R0x0R!
N00b i5 73h 5Ux0R!!11

Got it?

kthksbye!
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« Reply #9 on: January 26, 2007, 06:24:49 AM »
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wow, welcome to the intardnet!

There is a difference betwen knowing what it means vs. where it came from or how it came into being.


This was around in the 80's.
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« Reply #10 on: January 26, 2007, 06:46:18 AM »
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Now in my case I'm the total noob. I can't even read it nor do I know what it means ( before I read the wikopedia link ).

Actually, to be totaly honest about it, I really don't care to know. If someone wants to comunicate with me they need to do it in either English or Portuguese. If they don't care to use either, they are not talking to me so therefore it ceases to be of any concern to me.

Mark



 I'm with you, even though I can read it. Once you know what the little retards are typing it's obvious.
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Offline midnight Target

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« Reply #11 on: January 26, 2007, 10:04:13 AM »
It came originally from pagers... remember pagers? People worked out a code using numbers for letters so they could send free messages.
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« Reply #12 on: January 26, 2007, 10:13:01 AM »
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This was around in the 80's.


So was the intardnet.....just not like we know it today.
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« Reply #13 on: January 26, 2007, 11:49:47 PM »
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1337 i5 73h R0x0R!
N00b i5 73h 5Ux0R!!11

Got it?

kthksbye!
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« Reply #14 on: January 26, 2007, 11:51:57 PM »
If ya hafta ask....
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