do lolcatz speak 1337?

tamarack — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 19:34:44 -0800

do lolcatz speak 1337? or is there another term for this? similar to this question, but different. leet/1337 speak is when it's numerals + alpha, right? is there a (common) name for the lolcatz-speak? should i be using "1337" and i'm just being overly skeptical?

please, help me to get my geek on in an accurate manner.

Can you help me find tales of l33tness?

ArgentCorvid — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 16:01:39 -0800

Can you help me find more Hacker Folklore? There's The Story of Mel (and most of the rest of the Jargon File). There's The Story of the 500 Mile E-Mail. To a lesser degree of what I am looking for is The Origin of Quake3's Fast InvSqrt.

Do you know of anywhere that I can find more short stories in the same spirit of these? I'm talking about (probably) true stories of Techie Awesome and/or the history of Hacking. Stories about things that shouldn't work, but do.

If the story goes deep into the technical details, thats fine with me. In fact, the more details about the equipment and/or circumstances, the better.

I know that there are more out there than the three above, but I'm not sure I've been putting the right words into the search box.

Thanks in advance.

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