Where Did Leet Speak Actually Come From?

Where did leet speak actually come from? It started in the 1980s, on bulletin board systems, the dial-up message boards that came before the web. Elite users, the skilled insiders of those boards, shortened their own title to leet, then wrote it as 31337, with numbers standing in for letters. The style spread because it did two jobs at once. It... Weiterlesen: Where Did Leet Speak Actually Come From?