Re: [PLUG] 1337

[Thomas Thurman <thomas@thurman.org.uk>]

On Sat, 16 Nov 2002, Stewart B. Lone wrote:
> Pardon my ignorance, but an anyone enlighten me to the signifigance/meaning
> of "1337". I seem to be seeing this a lot lately. I googled with the quotes
> but am still in the dark.

Letter to number transition:

  1 = L (l)
  3 = E backwards
  7 = T, more or less

So 1337 = LEET, which is "elite" misspelled. There are apparently people
who think this is big and clever.

T
  

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