Where did leet speak come from?

[Maxico]

I always assumed that it was formed by Counter Strike clans so that they could communicate to each other without the other people or new people understanding them.

[m4tt]

I think the whole "u" instead of "you" shows laziness or stupidity. I see it all the time in Ragnarok Online. There are some exceptions, like a friend of mine is from a foreign country, so I don't care how she types. Atleast she's trying.

I like what happened the other night. My friend and I were leveling with the help of a higher leveled wizard type guy. Over and over he kept calling us "noobs" and saying other things like "wtf u need 2 hit dat guy" My friend and I were both getting annoyed, so he said "We may be 'noobs' but at least we are literate." I think he confused the wizard, because all he could do was say "stfu noob".

[Maxico]

For a long time when people said stfu I thought they misspelled stuff: "stuff noob, whats a stuff noob?"

[TasteyPies]

70s hackers

[ZeZipster]

I see a lot of it on big IRC networks, along with people threatening to "nuke" (which is actually a way of saying launch a DoS attack, which have been useless for quite some time now) me. I think when a script (Hennes script for mIRC) came out that auto-translated normal talk in to this babble, it was all down hill...

[UltimateSpamGrover]

70s hackers

long live the 70's

[Yamaneko]

I invented the Internet. Must've been me.

[chu52]

I invented the Internet. Must've been me.

But your not Bill gates... are you? (although he did not)

[Zell's Fists of Fury]

Al Gore.

[FreaQaZoiD]

The Internet was invented by the Russians later in the Cold War as a communications system through computers

[Yamaneko]

You see?

[Zell's Fists of Fury]

And Al Gore is Russian. It makes perfect sense!

[Meat Puppet]

Either way it sucks so don't use it

[nik0tine]

it is very possible that his 'leet speak' could actaully make it's way into the dictionary. i have seen words like homer simpsons "doh" in the dictionary. If this happens, the internet may ahve been responsible for single handedly ruining the english language. It's pretty pathetic that people talk, or even type like this. i can understand the "u" or "2" kind of stuff, but leet speak is just far to much in my opinion.

[Nait]

<b>If this happens, the internet may ahve been responsible for single handedly ruining the english language.</b>

:O_O:

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