Google90 Posted June 24, 2005 Share Posted June 24, 2005 Its become so popular and its not even an official language :shock: Ive heard that the word pwnage (ownage) came from someone making a stupid typo typing in "ownage" on diablo or counterstrike. What are your ideas? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Multani Posted June 24, 2005 Share Posted June 24, 2005 One probable explanation of its origin is from bulletin board systems (BBSs) in the 1980s and early 1990s. It started with people trying to talk about illegal or otherwise questionable activities, such as software piracy, that some BBS operators did not want to be discussed or carried out via their systems. The operators would filter out certain words or ban people who used them. Most notably the word "hacker" was a common banned word. Rather than stop talking about these topics, some BBS users would simply use variations on the words, for example "hacker" could be replaced by "hack0r" or "h4cker". These variants could be banned too, to which the response was to change the word more and more until it was barely recognizable ("h4x0r", "|-|^><()|z"). Eventually the BBS operators realized that there was no way of banning words in a polymorphic language like Leet. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scruffman Posted June 24, 2005 Share Posted June 24, 2005 leet, 1337 probably originated from some halo person whos all, oooh i'm an elite, but then noticed that 1337 looks like leet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
runesmithie Posted June 24, 2005 Share Posted June 24, 2005 leet, 1337 probably originated from some halo person whos all, oooh i'm an elite, but then noticed that 1337 looks like leet BBS came WAY before Halo... even XBOX... even before XBOX was planned ;) I just posted something! ^_^ to the terrorist...er... kirbybeam. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jak722 Posted June 24, 2005 Share Posted June 24, 2005 leet, 1337 probably originated from some halo person whos all, oooh i'm an elite, but then noticed that 1337 looks like leet Halo wasnt even born when leet came out... Suggest people read the Wikipedia explanation as stated above. The Enrichment Center reminds you that the weighted companion cube will never threaten to stab you and, in fact, cannot speak. In the event that the weighted companion cube does speak, the Enrichment Center urges you to disregard its advice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nadril Posted June 24, 2005 Share Posted June 24, 2005 leet, 1337 probably originated from some halo person whos all, oooh i'm an elite, but then noticed that 1337 looks like leet lol. Halo has nothing to do with it. Also to add to Mult's post, "1337 speak" was popularized among us normal folk when counter-strike for half life came out. Don't know how it caught on, but thats realy the first game that made it popular. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrBiffo Posted June 24, 2005 Share Posted June 24, 2005 I'll admit I used my share of "leet speak" terms when I used to play CS a few years back :oops: :oops: :oops: :oops: :oops: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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