silverpig
Lifer
So I'm bored and see the dictionary here in gnome (linux). I open it and start looking up words at random. So I type in pr0n and I get:
pr0n // Usenet, IRC Pornography. Originally this referred only to
Internet porn but since then it has expanded to refer to just about any
kind. The term comes from the warez kiddies tendency to replace
letters with numbers. At some point on IRC someone mistyped, swapped the
middle two letters, and the name stuck, then propagated over into
mainstream hacker usage. Compare filk, grilf, hing and
newsfroup.
Funny thing is though it doesn't work with other staples such as 1337/l33t, n00b, h4x0r, etc...
pr0n // Usenet, IRC Pornography. Originally this referred only to
Internet porn but since then it has expanded to refer to just about any
kind. The term comes from the warez kiddies tendency to replace
letters with numbers. At some point on IRC someone mistyped, swapped the
middle two letters, and the name stuck, then propagated over into
mainstream hacker usage. Compare filk, grilf, hing and
newsfroup.
Funny thing is though it doesn't work with other staples such as 1337/l33t, n00b, h4x0r, etc...
