
Originally Posted by
wit3card
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the howl LEET is coming of from the first electronic calculators in the late 80 early 90.
When you took a calculator put in the number 1337 and moved the calculator upside down you could read LEET because 1337 assembles that.
So beginning with this there were some nerds all over the world that tried to make up other words. But the first and the elite word was Leet aka 1337.
After some years there where guys all over the world that made a language out of it the "Leetspeak"
To be able to read Leetspeak was some years ago something that declared you as an elite Nerd.
It later got numbed down, so that average Joe could use it, but at the end only about 2% of them knows what leetspeak is and how to read it.
So if you would use it right you would answer probably something like:
0'rly?
or
50 1337?
or
||\| 1337 \/\/3 12[_]51
or
|=342 /\/\`/ 43><><02 5|<|775 !111!