You learn something
new everyday 👏🏼
Congratulations
on your ‘eliteness’ 🥂
Yesterday I received this strange notification from WordPress congratulating me on having received 1,337 followers on my blog.
That seemed to me to be a rather random number to have generated a special WordPress notification. I got one at 1,000 followers and I figured my next one might be when I reached 1,500 or 2,000. But 1,337? Huh?
So I typed “1337” into Google and learned that 1337 means “elite.” Apparently, “1337” is a sort of webspeak kind of symbol for elite. And “1337” is also referred to as “Leet.”
Curiosity piqued, I did a Google search on “Leet.”
LEET (1337) is a written language or cipher used in online gaming, emails, text messaging, tweeting, and other electronic communication. The root of the term “leet” is the word “elite” — translated as 31337 — and 1337 was initially developed as an exclusionary language: a way to encode text so that…
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Before all sorts of laws had caught up or applied to the internet. Lol
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I remember leet speak 🙂 I think it came out of the late 1990s nerd crowd 🙂
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God knows what I was doing in the 1990s … oh yeah, lived in Northampton for four years and worked for BBC Radio, joined two drama groups, owned a horse, lived alone and generally caused chaos … so probably didn’t know 1337 5p34k was even a thing!!
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Thanks for letting me know. I just trash canned it when I got that. Surely I had earned 13 hours and 37 minutes with someone’s wife.
Hire Deadshot to nail whoever was stalking you to throw that number at you.
As thrilling as being called bro by some doofus with tatts all over him when I buy my coffee. Even the cops are so undisciplined now it’s embarrassing if one has to talk to you
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