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Where did 1337 speak come from?
cityzen
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Ok..bored. You are not 1337 if you don't know this. Your prize is nothing. No cheating!!!
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People that wanted to chat without anyone else knowing what they were saying. For example, if someone was able to gain access to the root directory of a target system they would exclaim Woot!
None of the above, of course.
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Actually came from the net back in the 80ies. Its actually a language for real. ASCII!!! But on a side note in the early 90ies when AOL was popular it became the language of choice among proggie developers and hackers. I remember in 1996 messing with gamers(Mechwarrior II) in particular.
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Actually, its original name was Rodentia, and it was called this because it was a language used to converse over gopher.net. Back then when the internet was mainly a few MIT people, military folks and a few others, the data moved sooo slow that in order to decrease the amounts of 1's and 0's being sent back and forth, they started abbreviating many words. Kind of an internet shorthand, in order to allow faster communication over very slow data lines. Later on it became a signal of social status in that you were a true geek or hacker, because only the really old-school people would use it. Of course as all things of that nature, it eventually devolved into incorperating many other types of words, and became exclusively a social status thing to talk in that manner. Data lines had evolved to a point it was no longer needed to type in that manner, but just like hip-hop speak, (or many many other linguistic inventions) it became "cool" to talk in that manner, in certain crowds.
Currently its main use is by people that for the most part lack any of the expertise and cutting-edge knowledge that the originators possessed. It's primarly usage is by people that think they are much better players at any given game than they are, and they tend to devolve into spouting this gibbersh if they get "pwned" too many times by some "noob" who is using "cheesy" tactics (otherwise known as game mechanics). 99% of the truely skilled players out there don't speak in this manner, and if they do it is in a manner sarcastic and mocking towards those that actually think they are cool by speaking thusly.
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Rodentia was pre-internet. It was before x86 computers, before Prodigy/Compuserv and sure as hell was way before IRC and AOL.
All I know is it was around before MMOs (if your not counting possibly simple MuDs) so its none of the above.
If you need help please take a Basic computing 101 course. It lays out the history of computers as well as dates.
ARPANET and Internet are two completely different things.
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Curt teh Juggler: it was quite possibly the most amazing thing ever.
One plausible story I read was that one use was during the BBS days crackers used it as simple encyrption to stop string searches by authoriities on users messages and posts usually pertaining to cracking. The search engines were looking for text words not a mish mash of numbers, letters, symbols and upper/lower case, the 133t speak was gibberish to a computer but easily read by someone in the know.
Of course authorities would have caught on and devised better search engines but for a time it would have served a purpose. Now its just used to be different and try to stand out as an Internet language, unfortunately its not really standardised so instead of a language its a just a bunch of keywords or phrases that even then differ in format.
I'll laugh if someone picks tibia
Still not as funny as the WoW thing though
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