What is Leet?

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EzeWong

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Who invented leet?

And when will it go away?

actualy, its slowly now going mainstreem, so no.

It started in getting very popular in CS I believe. But someone told me it started much earlier, but in a simpler from. I know typing with numebers and stuff has been around for a while...

I remember the good old beta days of CS,

I do remeber thats when everyone I knew picked up l33T,

Holy Tuna on Roasted Toast God Supreme bread... Leet is so annoying.

Figures, an annoying language would re-spawn from the most annoying kids on the planet - Kids who play CS

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The slang 'l33t" was given life from the use of the word "Elite" in the 1995 movie Hackers. There the term was used to identify

the "top of the food chain" in that world.

Used now..it is an extreme insult, meaning "Wanna Be"

Its is only Scene related, meaning that they are Warez, P2P, or others of the same origins, but not a Scene member

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draelas

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in the cs world the word L33T means different things based on the servers you join.

in some its just something funny to say jokingly.

others its considered an insult by saying something like "you are so l33t" in a condesending manner

other servers take it serisouly and everyone speaks in l33t

i first saw it like years ago in the old cs beta days. figure it would be gone by now...but then i see my younger bro and his friends typing in it... so it doesnt' seen to be dying anytime soon it would seen as each generation becomes aware of the interent.

even just chatting has developed its own words(more so just so you dont have to type as much) for example, typing prolly(probably) or thru(though or threw). i even remember reading an article in the newspaper about how kids in school are writing and typing in this way. not on purpose but just out of habit and don't even realize it. So i'll be interested to see in the next few years what schools and people find as acceptable writing. It would seem the "internet language" if you will is not going away and the rest of the world, ie. older, more internet ignorant people, are going to have to adapt to it.

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Puful3tu

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1337 means elite.

It's just a way of mocking things, like in Warcraft3 where you ask your opponent " Are you good ? ". 1337 it's just slang. Nobody should take it seriously but if you use that word, that doesn't make you Loser Wanna Be or else. It just makes you 1337. That's it ! (look, i made a rhyme!!! I gues i'm a 1337 poet )

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