What do you know about |337?

[AreaCode707]

I mentioned it in passing to one of my English profs the other day and made her curious. Now, my interest in my chosen field (communications) is internet communications so when my prof cornered me today and asked me a little more about this foreign geek-talk, I was only too happy to oblige her. So I'm putting together a bit of a description (for no credit, unfortunately) and thought it might possibly be fun to get remarks from you guys on the topic.

Where did it come from? What's your opinion of it (sign of the uber-lame or truly 3|337)?

Oh, and BTW, anyone have the link for that site that translates English into 1337?

 

[Anubis]

dont know much about it and i think its stupid

 

[minendo]

L33t-5p34K G3n3r@t0r v3r510N 0.6

 

[pulse8]

I think there was a time when it was considered kind of cool, but that time has LOOOONG since past.

 

[Tallgeese]

Originally posted by: HotChic
Oh, and BTW, anyone have the link for that site that translates English into 1337?

Take your pick

BTW: Personally, I'd be more interested in the technology behind stuff like Tha Shizzolator, rather than 1337-speak.

 

[nick1985]

@ |3 ( |) 3 |= 6 |-| | _| |< |_ /\/\ |\| 0 |0 (,) |2 $ 7 |_| \/ \/\/ + '/ 2


eh???

 

[pyonir]

it all came from the movie Hackers.

 

[CraigRT]

hahah, holy haxor encoding... jesus!!

 

[pulse8]

Originally posted by: pyonir
it all came from the movie Hackers.

It was there long before Hackers.

 

[pyonir]

Originally posted by: pulse8

Originally posted by: pyonir
it all came from the movie Hackers.

It was there long before Hackers.

Hence the rolling eyes.........

 

[ElFenix]

Originally posted by: Tallgeese

Originally posted by: HotChic
Oh, and BTW, anyone have the link for that site that translates English into 1337?

Take your pick

BTW: Personally, I'd be more interested in the technology behind stuff like Tha Shizzolator, rather than 1337-speak.

hahah i just shizzolated SWF's front page and men's club changed to fool's club hehehe

 

[Rent]

l33+ (1337, 31337, L33+, ect...) originated in the Quake1 days. I was getting popular to abbreviate words because of the fact that Q1 had a short typing space and it was so fast paced that you were forced to do so.

It wasn't uncommon to hear of stuff like "u h4v3 b33n 0wn3d" very, very often.

Of course, when you get 10k+ people playing a game like that, its bound to spread. Welcome to the slums of the internet

 

[AreaCode707]

The teacher is interested in it because she's teaching an "approaches to reading" class and is kind of investigated *any* changes that technology has instituted on speech. |337 is more of a mocking change than a real one, with the more legitimate changes being the overflow of abbreviations, I think.

 

[LordJezo]

j00 sux0rz.. so does your professor!

w00t!

1 ownst j00!!


wras0ss!!


oh, and i was yelled at in a chatroom today.. apparently you can never use the word &uuml;ber unless it is followed by the word 1337.

i guess that means i was pwnd!

 

[FrustratedUser]

Originally posted by: Tallgeese

Originally posted by: HotChic
Oh, and BTW, anyone have the link for that site that translates English into 1337?

Take your pick

BTW: Personally, I'd be more interested in the technology behind stuff like Tha Shizzolator, rather than 1337-speak.

Translate ATOT. LMAO!

 

[d33pt]

KRAD

 

[Tallgeese]

Originally posted by: FrustratedUser

Originally posted by: Tallgeese
BTW: Personally, I'd be more interested in the technology behind stuff like Tha Shizzolator, rather than 1337-speak.

Translate ATOT. LMAO!

My personal fave: The Official White House website

 

[FrustratedUser]

Originally posted by: Tallgeese

Originally posted by: FrustratedUser

Originally posted by: Tallgeese
BTW: Personally, I'd be more interested in the technology behind stuff like Tha Shizzolator, rather than 1337-speak.

Translate ATOT. LMAO!

My personal fave: The Official White House website

"President Big Baby Bush"
LMAO!

 

[AreaCode707]

I was going to include a link to this thread in whatever I gave my prof, but now I'm not so sure.

 

[AreaCode707]

Originally posted by: pyonir

Hence the rolling eyes.........

Dearie, I'm so glad you changed your avatar. You're restored to grace, with *hugs*.

 

[UncleWai]

Last week on my way to school, I saw a mustang with the license "L337".
I thought I should post this because it's kinda L337.

 

[phantom309]

My understanding is that it originated in the old BBS scene in the early '90s - partly because they thought it looked cool and partly because they thought it foiled Fed search engines looking for subversive and/or pr0n content.

 

[DannyLove]

What do you know about |337?

I know that its not worth a thread topic.

danny~!

 

[Storm]

Originally posted by: phantom309
My understanding is that it originated in the old BBS scene in the early '90s - partly because they thought it looked cool and partly because they thought it foiled Fed search engines looking for subversive and/or pr0n content.

That makes sense... Im guessing then it filtered into the gaming scene(since BBS was also used for gaming back in the day) and was used by the hardcore gamers in certain circles before filtering down to the every day n00b who think hes so uber cool by saying it after every frag.

Hot Chic I think your professor should investigate the instant message and how that has changed/shortened the english language.