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What do you know about |337?

AreaCode707

AreaCode707

Lifer
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?
 
it all came from the movie Hackers.
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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 🙂
 
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.
 
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 über unless it is followed by the word 1337.

i guess that means i was pwnd!
 
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.
 
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.
 
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.
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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.
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Hot Chic I think your professor should investigate the instant message and how that has changed/shortened the english language.
 
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