January 17, 2004
Can you read this?

At Christmas I recieved this wonderful shirt. My brother Matt found it and thought I would like it.

Can you read it?

I thought that most computer & tech people would get he joke. Yesterday I wore it ot work and everyone kept asking 'what is 3l337'? Now, I work with an IT and an engineering department and I expected most people to get it.

Only two people, Nathan & Yoshi, read the patch at first glance. Are hacker-knowledgeable people really so rare?

In any case, if you don't understand it, 3l337 translates to elite in hacker-speak aka leet-speak.

If you are interested in the connotation of elite or the basics of hacker-speak, read more.

Until later, j00 r 411 l4m3rz! I 0\/\/nz0r j00!!!

Posted by michael at January 17, 2004 07:25 AM | TrackBack

Comments

Even if hardly anyone got it, it's still a cool shirt. :)

Posted by: Ken [] on January 17, 2004 09:39 AM

j00 m4y 0\/\/nz0r m3 b\/t j00 R pwn3d 4s w3ll.

4 l4m3r

Posted by: patinhisrightmind [http://blog.patbryant.com] on January 17, 2004 05:10 PM

Nobody says 31337. It's 1337. Abbreviations rawk.

Posted by: BillB [http://squidly.com] on January 18, 2004 12:02 PM

I've always seen it as l337 (el), not 1337 (one).

Posted by: Travis [http://www.guyinasuit.com] on January 18, 2004 11:39 PM

haha, nice one. When I moved this last time I changed my phone number to be xxx-1337. Ahh, the joys of working for the phone company. =)

Posted by: roXet [http://www.roxet.net] on January 19, 2004 06:23 AM

Sorry Travis, but you are evidently 1 short of being 1337.

Posted by: BillB [http://squidly.com] on January 20, 2004 05:53 AM
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