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Unread 11 Mar 2003, 09:59   #1
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History of the word Leet?

Who claims to invented it?
Is it exclusive to PA?
Whats the definition?
whats the proper spelling?
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leet or l33t stands for elite basically (well thats what i have been told from day 0)
in which case the proper spelling is probably elite. but the spelling of leet could be most things.

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leet

Pollack \Pol"lack\, n. [Cf. G. & D. pollack, and Gael. pollag a little pool, a sort of fish.] (Zo["o]l.) (a) A marine gadoid food fish of Europe (Pollachius virens). Called also greenfish, greenling, lait, leet, lob, lythe, and whiting pollack. (b) The American pollock; the coalfish.
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It's been around for a very very long time, far longer than PA has existed. I first encountered it back in the days of gaming online in QuakeWorld, and I think you'll find it entered PA culture because many of the players came from a FPS background. Who invented it and how it came into FPS culture however I haven't got a clue.

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1. No idea.

2. No, afaik also used in CS/Quake-clan type circles. Unlikely it's unique since the term is wide spread on google (with the spelling of l33t tho). There are numerous domains registered involving the word to.

3. (i) Someone of the "elite" - best of the best, player with skillz. The opposite of a n00b.

(ii) Something very good or cool, having attributes that are highly desirable, etc. "The new Radeon Ultra Bollox is leet", etc.

(iii) leet-speek - a dialect used by on-line communities. Originally probably partially derived from phreaker and hacker speak. On some warez BBSs (back in the day) eVeRY oNe TYPeD LiKE THiS or some variation (I think that was warez speak, I forget, I only tried it once to get onto the 4th Reich (pro-NAZI warez bbs for some reason...) when 13 and the bloke said "Ah bollocks to it", in the middle of the conversation and started typing normally).

Basically l33t speak was used by the warez types to differentiate themselves from n00bs. Unlike nowdays there were no Peer-to-peer networks, you needed to be given access to someones BBS site. So everything depended on how leet you were. This community still exists to a certain extent until recently with news from www.isonews.com. I've no idea how many of the groups still exist (Razor 1911, etc, etc) and if they still type like morons.

I believe the original point to a lot of this nonsense was that Sysadmins would search for "Software" but not "warez". Possibly.

"Modern" leet speak seems to have dropped most of the cap-deforming actions but still pisses about with everyone second word. There are numerous leet translators on the web.

4. l33t or leet I'd say.

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I first heard it back in 95-96 or something in the QuakeWorld community.
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That's funny.

The word also has connections with the first great computer game, Elite, which was the first computer game to have a world-wide competition (how many kills you could get in 2 hours, starting from scratch). The winner alledgedly scored 1337, and so the "word" grew from connotations with that event.
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The word also has connections with the first great computer game, Elite, which was the first computer game to have a world-wide competition (how many kills you could get in 2 hours, starting from scratch). The winner alledgedly scored 1337, and so the "word" grew from connotations with that event.
I forgot about the Elite link, but yes it's definitely relevent.

The 1337 score is almost certainly fantasy, but it's an amusing story.
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I doubt its possible to kill 1337 ships in two hours in Elite


hm maybe in a anarchistic sytem but you still have to kill about 167 ships each 15 minutes..
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hm maybe in a anarchistic sytem but you still have to kill about 167 ships each 15 minutes..
Even if it is possible (in Frontier it is, in Riedquat or Lave with a **** load of shield generators and the Shift-F5 buttons jammed down) it's too much of a coincidence.
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I forgot about the Elite link, but yes it's definitely relevent.

The 1337 score is almost certainly fantasy, but it's an amusing story.
That's why I said alledgedly. Killing over 11 ships a minute would be pretty hard.

Although, now I think about it, I think money counted towards the final score, so you never know.
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Not really a look into the history of l33tspeak, but quite amusing:

http://www.straightdope.com/columns/030110.html
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