[quote:63d454707b="liposeduction"] I feel so L337...:? :P[/quote:63d454707b]

LOL....

I thought you were like 20 years old Umi?? I'm impressed...you're either an amazing student of the history of the internet, or a geek of the highest order... :wink:

For the record, S.O., "l337" refers to what might simply be described as "pig-latin" for online text chats.

It was originally devised as a way to disguise online discussions of rather nefarious and illegal nature, usually regarding hacking, software swapping, pirating and the like.

The "elite" users of various boards, i.e. the "Sweet Ones" of the day, would gradually "share" their "secrets" as new users become more proven. But communication was coded with "elite-speak", which was an odd mix of phonetic and visual substitution of letters.

e's became 3's
t's became 7's

"elites" became "leets", which became "l33Ts", which morphed into "L337" speak.

and that concludes today's internet history lesson.

...jim

ahhh. that's uberinteresting!
thank you Jim!
I'm elite? ops:

I'm still internet-old... I'm one of the handful of people out there that remembers/uses *L* (yes, there was life before LOL).

AHHHHHHHH I remember " *L* " .... sigh. The good old days!.. or.. er.. well.. early days for me haha!

*L* that WAS a long time ago...

[quote:7dbbb22790="BoyWonder"]*L* that WAS a long time ago...[/quote:7dbbb22790]
*g*

[quote:c2b58140e5="joleary"][quote:c2b58140e5="Sweet One"]If it's any consolation, you have like 15.3 posts per day... that's around double my post rate or anyone else's lol. Although I think sourburger was posting around that rate before he went home for xmas lol[/quote:c2b58140e5]

Yeah, speaking of which, where the heck is sourburger??

...jim[/quote:c2b58140e5]
I feel so loved!! Anyway, I'm back from Ottawa now, and so will resume my posting-like-it's-going-out-of-style ways.

OMG... I just now noticed Sweet One's exponential growth in his post count...

[quote:386088d299="sourburger"]OMG... I just now noticed Sweet One's exponential growth in his post count...[/quote:386088d299]

ops:

What can I say... exams + me = bored.

hehe. *g*. I totally started that.... back in 1996

[quote:7c52f7e0ba="Sweet One"][quote:7c52f7e0ba="sourburger"]OMG... I just now noticed Sweet One's exponential growth in his post count...[/quote:7c52f7e0ba]

ops:

What can I say... exams + me = bored.

hehe. *g*. I totally started that.... back in 1996 [/quote:7c52f7e0ba]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I used to be convinced I had come up with the term "writing utensil" back in 1994.

LOL seriously... I remember chatting with a friend one day and saying *giggle* ... at whcih point I was like "Isn't there a shorter way of saying this?" "nope.." "Fine, I'm coining *g*. It means *giggle* from now on"... no one else had ever heard of it before... but I've seen it a lot over the last month or two

LOL

yep, and I was room-mates with Al Gore when we stayed up late drinking jack daniels one night and invented the internet....


...jim

[quote:64b1d3e875="Sweet One"]another prof in first year brought in smarties once as an example (I think it was calculus.. some sort of math thing)... and was shocked to discover they'd melted all over the projector.[/quote:64b1d3e875]
DOTTY!!!!!

[quote:d5220ac174="wootam!"]
DOTTY!!!!![/quote:d5220ac174]

ROTFL> You were in that class?

Weeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!
Number 8000!!!!

Your at 1,500 now neal.

I have the screen grab =p

Cameron Bay.