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Off Topic => Ten Forward => Topic started by: IndyShark on July 03, 2007, 05:40:47 pm

Title: L337
Post by: IndyShark on July 03, 2007, 05:40:47 pm

What the heck does L337 mean? I saw it in the webcomic, CAD and I can't figure it out.

Thanks!

http://www.ctrlaltdel-online.com/comic.php

Title: Re: L337
Post by: Hexx on July 03, 2007, 05:43:52 pm

Isn't it another version of 133t? Or leet? Or eilte? (however that finally works out)

Title: Re: L337
Post by: IndyShark on July 03, 2007, 06:09:07 pm

I think so, but not sure

Title: Re: L337
Post by: Commander Maxillius on July 04, 2007, 04:19:26 pm

Yup, though "L337" is not truly "leet".  Leetspeek is a typed language developed by hackers and adopted by gamers just because it looks cool.  Hackers started changing words to get around filters BBS sites had to keep out certain topics like porn (pr0n).

example: 
plain English: My C7 will be victorious aganst your BCH.
leetspeek: My C7 will pwn joo!  Ph33r my dr0n35 of wr4th!11!!!!11!

Title: Re: L337
Post by: IndyShark on July 04, 2007, 04:27:03 pm

Thanks CM!

+1 for you

Title: Re: L337
Post by: Iceman on July 05, 2007, 12:55:23 am

 :P

I think you're all getting old.

Falling behind on your internet lingo, pfft.

Title: Re: L337
Post by: Panzergranate on July 05, 2007, 07:09:49 am

So it's a bit like how the youngsters think that the old morse code abreiviations, used for over 100 years, on mobile phone text messages are a modern invention by they're generation.

They seem surprised that someone my age (45) knows them as well. Errrrrrr...... I do Ham radio so have been using them for yonks!!

Title: Re: L337
Post by: Commander Maxillius on July 05, 2007, 04:25:11 pm

Looks like it's a matter of low bandwidth dictating fast communication compromises.

Correct spelling in morse code would take more than twice as long as abbreviations.  At least today we've got 10-15 keys instead of just one.

Title: Re: L337
Post by: marstone on July 05, 2007, 06:23:40 pm

true in morse it would take along time, but morse had a shorthand to use also, the awesome Q&Z signals.

qlk imi k

Title: Re: L337
Post by: Panzergranate on July 08, 2007, 12:10:23 pm

A lot of morse encryptions were devised by the old telegraph operators to encrypt common phrases. 53 = All my love. 54 = Merry Chistmas, etc.

These would be comon telegraph messages phrases. It resulted in shorter traffic packets.

The CB radio craze took on a lot of these numbers like 73s, etc.

I just find it funny that old 1800's telegraph operator's encryptions like L8R, 2DAY and 2MRW are used by youngsters who think that they're clever, modern and hip!!

Title: Re: L337
Post by: Commander Maxillius on July 10, 2007, 02:13:08 pm

Quote from: Panzergranate on July 08, 2007, 12:10:23 pm

A lot of morse encryptions were devised by the old telegraph operators to encrypt common phrases. 53 = All my love. 54 = Merry Chistmas, etc.

These would be comon telegraph messages phrases. It resulted in shorter traffic packets.

The CB radio craze took on a lot of these numbers like 73s, etc.

I just find it funny that old 1800's telegraph operator's encryptions like L8R, 2DAY and 2MRW are used by youngsters who think that they're clever, modern and hip!!

And it's even funnier that they're called lazy by their parents :P

Title: Re: L337
Post by: Panzergranate on July 13, 2007, 10:23:09 am

I liked that fact that I used to talk to all my friends via CB radio over dozens of miles for Free, but today's youngsters talk to someone within eyeshot on a moblie (cell phone in the US) and are happy to pay through the nise to do it!! DuHHHH!! as they like to say!!

Is it me or are today's teenagers esier to sucker than we were in the past??

And is the the fact that Rap rhymes with Crap a conincidnece?? The both sound similar!!

 

Title: Re: L337
Post by: Commander Maxillius on July 18, 2007, 04:38:49 am

Yeah, the latest generation is in for a serious wake-up call.