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| 232841 | 2004-04-29 02:47:00 | Hey guys... just a query here. When exactly did our online language change to incorporate 'words' like g33k, l33t, 3l33t, haxx0r, n00b, r0xx0r and über? And who started it? As far back as I can remember these words are when I first entered the direct connect network, october last year. |
hamstar (4) | ||
| 232842 | 2004-04-29 03:02:00 | It has not been and never will be incorporated in my online language. B-) | Graham L (2) | ||
| 232843 | 2004-04-29 03:45:00 | What I wanna know is who came up with: w00t ?:| |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 232844 | 2004-04-29 03:47:00 | > And who started it? Retards. ;-) LOL |
Fire-and-Ice (3910) | ||
| 232845 | 2004-04-29 03:55:00 | who started it? 11 year old Counter Strike players,11 year old's who download a rip and think they are pirates(n3Cr0),and script kiddies. |
metla (154) | ||
| 232846 | 2004-04-29 04:52:00 | c0m3 0n Graham, joo are uber l337 and pwn pf1, n0 l0ng3r a n00b. Woot!!! | Jester (13) | ||
| 232847 | 2004-04-29 05:13:00 | leet speak or 1337 speak or 1337 5p34|< (it has varying levels of... there's no way to put it nicely) has been around for some time.. there's plenty of information about it within reach of a simple google search I like the comments here: www.straightdope.com most notably: "On the scale of linguistic complexity, basic leet is about on a par with pig Latin," >What I wanna know is who came up with: >w00t There are two major schools of thought here, one is related to everquest and I forget what the story there is, and the other story is that it's related to the old old days of cracking when everything was unix, upon gaining root access the successful cracker would yell in celebration "root!" or type into IRC/BBS "r00t!" Mix that with the early 90's (waaaahooooo) and you get w00t TMYK ;) and another link of partial relevance: http://www.urbandictionary.com/ |
whetu (237) | ||
| 232848 | 2004-04-29 05:16:00 | more interesting reading and minor theories about w00t can be found here: answers.google.com |
whetu (237) | ||
| 232849 | 2004-04-29 05:24:00 | oh for post editing... btw, über is german, it loosely translates out to "super" or "above" (super means "above" if you were not aware; a boat's superstructure is the structure "above" water, superman has abilities "above" that of a normal man etc) so there is technically nothing wrong with its usage in online language, as you may have noticed - english uses a lot of words from different languages, latin and german included ;) |
whetu (237) | ||
| 232850 | 2004-04-29 05:45:00 | Oh my, retard counterstike players... :P That used to be a good game, but no more. Can anyone decipher this? y c@N'+ p30p13 R3kO9nIZ3 +eh 834UTy uv 1337??? or this? £==7§¶=@/‹ ¿‡<=§ µ= @ 3@§§‡>= #=@Ð@(c)#=. (Hints: = is E, ‡ is I, > and < are both V.) Thats just plain cr4zy. |
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