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  • Äre you 1££7 ?

    So I dont understand it lately. what is up with "sexy kills" and "l33t *****" "ownin jo0". And countless unreadable phrases written on chat bars ; somthing like " ~¦-ƒÆ_£?". Is this a fairly new thing? Who dreams this **** up?

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    Re: Äre you 1££7 ?

    Originally posted by faded glory
    Who dreams this **** up?
    Pathetic wannabe hackers.
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    • #3
      really? But whats the point? It just seems so retarded and anti-social.

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      • #4
        Guess its their way of saying "Look at me! I'm different!"

        Most people who speak 1337 aren't exactly the sharpest knives in the drawer either, since most aren't too well educated (thus the less than average command of the English language, despite the fact that it is their 1st language).
        Last edited by Jethro83; May 30, 2002, 02:58.
        "Corporation, n, An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility." -- Ambrose Bierce
        "Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both." -- Benjamin Franklin
        "Yes, we did produce a near-perfect republic. But will they keep it? Or will they, in the enjoyment of plenty, lose the memory of freedom? Material abundance without character is the path of destruction." -- Thomas Jefferson

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        • #5
          It originated to get around censor programs, or other programs that network admins used that parsed text for certain words. Talking about "ass" over the university network might get you in trouble (to use a very lame example), but a program seeing the word "455" is unlikely to raise any alarms.

          However, there are much more intelligent ways to have private conversations these days, and 1337 has been taken over by hacker-wannabe's. Negative attention is still attention.
          I'm building a wagon! On some other part of the internets, obviously (but not that other site).

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          • #6
            Originally posted by Skanky Burns
            It originated to get around censor programs, or other programs that network admins used that parsed text for certain words. Talking about "ass" over the university network might get you in trouble (to use a very lame example), but a program seeing the word "455" is unlikely to raise any alarms.

            However, there are much more intelligent ways to have private conversations these days, and 1337 has been taken over by hacker-wannabe's. Negative attention is still attention.
            I have been edubacated.

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            • #7
              It's been going on in the geek scene for years now, and it's slowly creeping into the AOLer lexicon and now kids everywhere are starting to use it

              It's mostly an attention/elitist stunt.
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              • #8
                The poor souls ...

                See also http://apolyton.net/forums/showthrea...highlight=1337
                and


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                • #9
                  That site, thankfully, appears to have disappeared.
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                  • #10
                    Originally posted by Chowlett
                    That site, thankfully, appears to have disappeared.
                    Good riddance to a stupid, ridiculous, senseless waste of webspace. Those of you who missed it, consider yourselves lucky, for there was no punishment worse than visiting it.
                    "Corporation, n, An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility." -- Ambrose Bierce
                    "Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both." -- Benjamin Franklin
                    "Yes, we did produce a near-perfect republic. But will they keep it? Or will they, in the enjoyment of plenty, lose the memory of freedom? Material abundance without character is the path of destruction." -- Thomas Jefferson

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                    • #11
                      except perhaps running it
                      Concrete, Abstract, or Squoingy?
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                      • #12
                        Nope - that was the crime not the punishment - read your dostoievski ...

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                        • #13
                          Yeah, thanks God it's gone. I visited it while it was there - I had a very bad feeling, as if I just lost all my CDs.
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                          • #14
                            Originally posted by Scouse Gits
                            Nope - that was the crime not the punishment - read your dostoievski ...

                            SG[1]

                            Perhaps that's what happened to the people who were running that site?
                            Maybe they killed an old pawn-broker with a hatchet, went mad, fell in love with a prostitute and were sent to Siberia where they underwent an epiphany and gradually regained their sanity and happiness through the peace and security of love.
                            Yeah .. that must be it.
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                            • #15
                              I tried reading my Dostoievski, but found it immensely dull after the first few chapters. So I went back to Gulliver's Travels.
                              Concrete, Abstract, or Squoingy?
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