How did the whole Number to Letter thing start?

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Aug 14 2005, 8:14 am
How did this whole thing start where people used numbers as letters. Example H3ll0. 1337.

This is just a question I have thought about for a while.
Aug 14 2005, 8:20 am
Not sure, but it has been a while I do believe.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leet_speak
Aug 14 2005, 6:11 pm
My guess is it started when sucky FPS gamers needed a way to confuse their opponents in multiplayer games. Sort of like a very simple layer of encryption, like pig Latin (but not as complex). Of course once it caught on it would have completely lost any sort of edge.
Aug 15 2005, 3:24 pm
Some loser being an idiot.
Aug 15 2005, 4:08 pm
In response to Makubezu
1 4t3 j00r r4m3n n00d135
I HATE YOUR RAMEN NOODLES!!!
Aug 15 2005, 4:57 pm
In response to Bringer of Flames
Hackers used it in counter-strike.
Aug 15 2005, 5:25 pm
Beck in the day when the internet was mostly just builitin boards like this forum, hackers and pirates and such would use "l33t" speak to avoid certain searches done by officials to find culprits. Now only little whiney 12 year olds use it.
Aug 15 2005, 8:48 pm
In response to RaditzX
Then again, they aren't really "hackers"(which is the wrong term anyhow) -- they just download programs and hope it doesn't have a trojan.
Aug 15 2005, 10:12 pm
In response to Soccerguy13
Pft, 1m 12 4nd 1m so n0t wh1ny.












Not really. >.> Im 13! :D