A nice message to all

[xns]

1337 spe4k actually makes sense if u think about it, like if you were typing fast and mis hit a key? 3 and e are in very similar spots, but i dont know how u would explain A . I think the term 1337 and its subsitution of letters for numbers and symbols was around way before counterstrike, probably started with Hackers (****ty movie...cough cough) as stocker said

[Mr1der]

pff, I am spelling bee king.

[deeznuttz415]

wat iz u talkin' bout? i speaka perfect english

[jdmfreak]

OK I was able to read that whole sentence that Dark Apollo typed, but I still cant get what 1337 means. Any1 wanna help me out?

[drifter sx]

heh man dont worry about it.. LEET is stupid.. for stupid heads. better if u dont confooz urselph \/\/i74 !7..

wtf??

[jdmfreak]

LOL! Thats exactly how I read 1337, but it didnt make any sense to me. I thought I was the only one that used the word stupid head. Glad to know Im not alone.

Oh and thats some high class grammar you got there.

[Kaioshin1982]

L()l t|-|1s t|-|r3ad is has the all funneyyyyy this thread has ~_~

I think I speakish very good engrish bvt correct me if me am wroung

[den240]

Not 1337, butcheck this S13:

offrimits

[Kaioshin1982]

mmm nice car

[Dark Apollo]

w00t 7h47 5-13 !5 h07 j00all this thread are belong to me!\/\/|-|/-\7 |_|[]D /\/O\/\/!

[downshift]

Damn....i dont think i could ever speak that language fluently, it takes me too damn long to decode what you guys are writing.

[entity]

lol i beleive 1337 talk came from Counter Strike (which i love)

It actually started way back before the internet boom of the mid 90's. I used to be on local BBS's (bulletin board systems) that you dialed into to chat, game(text based), message boards(the grandfather of what you're reading), or whatnot, which spawned this term. BBS's predated the internet, starting in the late 70's to early 80's. They were isolated from each other and the majority of them were hosted on home computers running special BBS software. The amount of users that could log on a system at a time were deteremined by the amount of phone lines(nodes) that the SysOP(system operator) decided to install. Having 4 nodes was a large BBS, and commercial BBS's that had early internet access had 8 to a few dozen at the most. Most of these either went out of business or turned into your local ISP, offering internet access only.

1337 was WAY before counterstrike. It's a n00b'd form of the word elite. The movie Hackers was when I first heard it.

Elite people used to be hackers/pirates/phreakers/etc. You'd log on an "elite" bbs to download pirated software(or "warez"), hacking manuals, etc. These BBS's were of course illegal and easily tracked down because they had local dial in numbers(again b4 the internet boom), so only a few people knew about them, I guess thus spawning the word "elite".

In chat on most bbs's you had action words, like you type in lol, it says "so and so is laughing out loud"(which evolved into present day lol, rofl, brb, etc). I'm guessing people heard of these "elite" boards, wanted to be "elite", so they took the shortened acronyms, figured they take it one step further and spun it into something they thought was cool & exclusive, and came away with "l33t".

[jdmfreak]

Learn something new every day. What does brb mean. Ive never seen it used before.

[Dark Apollo]

BRB Be Right Back

[jdmfreak]

Oooooohhhh OK!

[entity]

Yea..I'm only 23 and giving "Back in my day" & "I remember when" speeches. Go internet.

[Dark Apollo]

heh. i remember dialing up to BBS with a 9800baud. god those were the days... this page would have taken 5+ minutes to load. let alone REPLYING.

[entity]

Yea..I believe it was half hour per MB.

[jdmfreak]

Damn!

[downshift]

Damn!

Words right outta my mouth bro....