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[Jamski]

And I thought the sign of being a real geek was knowing how to read and write l33t script, but refraining from doing so. That's how to be really cool. HA! real geeks know how to make words in their posts bigger or much smaller

-Jam

[Dauphin]

Originally posted by Skanky Burns
Back in the day, the 'net was moderated by evil net admins, and the hackers would have to get around the admin censors by making their text not exactly plain text. Words like "SEX" would set off admin alarms. Spelt like $3x, and this would go silently past all censors.

With the rise of free decent encryption, the need for 133t speak has gone, but in an effort to be like the "cool" hackers the script kiddies have picked up the lingo in an effort to make themselves look cool. They have yet to realise that 133t is out of fashion.

Wasn't it Doom that revived it all. Hackers wanted to show off that they were computer whizzez and so communicated in l££t.

[DrSpike]

Certainly it was in the FPS community I saw it first.

[DarkCloud]

Counterstrike players use it the most nowadays- A look at some of their fora might show you that...

Also, it seems that more than a few of our OT brethern are literate in the sub-language

We should start a l33t thread here
...or perhaps not

[Rasbelin]

gg, m8

So in conclusion: any game played by American teens seem to get these abreviations. MoH, AoE2, CS; you name it.