• psycotica0@lemmy.caEnglish
    9·
    1 day ago

    Maybe not a teen thing, but among children I think “because 789” could bring 789 into the discussion.

      • SaraTonin@lemmy.worldEnglish
        122·
        2 days ago

        It’s got nothing to do with height. It’s a Chicago police code for murder. The rapper whose song this was taken from is from Chicago and the the context in which it appears in those lyrics make it clear it’s also about murder.

        The 6’7” thing was made up by people trying to find reason or rhyme as to why a shibboleth they didn’t know would be said at a basketball game and inventing that it had to be connected to the height of one player.

  • hOrni@lemmy.worldEnglish
    10316·
    2 days ago

    For millennials, like me: 1337 means “LEET” which is short for “Elite”.

    • Ludicrous0251@piefed.zipEnglish
      190·
      2 days ago

      Sorry, what? I’m a millennial, this is common knowledge for anyone who played a videogame in the last quarter century.

      • hoppolito@mander.xyzEnglish
        98·
        2 days ago

        I was going to say, I think the perpetuation of leetspeak and most of its use falls squarely into the millennial generation’s early 90s into the early 2000s.

    • grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
      793·
      2 days ago

      What the h311 is wrong with you? Us millennials invented 1337!

        • ByteJunk@lemmy.worldEnglish
          371·
          2 days ago

          Yep I think pops here has this one, us Millennials grew up with leet speak, it already was a thing in the 80s.

          • Log in | Sign up@lemmy.worldEnglish
            5·
            1 day ago

            I remember it well.

            The newspapers were apoplectic about the coming millennium bug Armageddon (hospital equipment was all going to crash because programmers encoded a date as two digits to save what was then rather sparse memory and storage space, and everyone was going to accidentally become of negative age and all timers would temporarily give very wrong answers.

            COBOL programmers: there’s a serious issue with banking and other business systems and we need to concentrate on this above above other issues to resolve it
            Managers and newspapers: ARMAGEDDON!
            COBOL programmers: we’ve got this.
            Newspapers: nobody is doing anything about it! Armageddon!
            COBOL programmers: It’s a lot of work but we’re cracking on, we’ve been working at it a while and it’s going to be tight and we’re going to need to put in some overtime, but really, we’ve got this.
            Newspapers: OH FUCK LITERALLY EVERYTHING IS GOING TO CRASH

            Millienium dawns. Some slight issues remain. Most important systems already patched and fine. Society does not crash.

            Newspapers: There was no millennium bug after all!
            COBOL programmers: no, there was, but we fixed it like we said we needed to and then we did. Boy, that was hard work.
            Newspapers: It was ALL A HOAX.
            COBOL programmers: no, it was a problem and we fixed it.
            Newpapers: CELEBRITY WOMAN WEARS DRESS.
            COBOL programmers: we just see the world differently, I guess. Can I retire early with all this emergency business critical overtime money?

            • ByteJunk@lemmy.worldEnglish
              2·
              21 hours ago

              Ahahah I experienced only the media narrative, and it did play out exactly as you described it.

              Of course now it comes to reason that many people were actively working to fix the problem, but they never really explained that part on TV.

              • Log in | Sign up@lemmy.worldEnglish
                1·
                7 hours ago

                Lol no, they did not!

                NERDS WORK VERY HARD INDEED AND FIX BUGS IN MASSIVE NUMBERS OF SYSTEMS doesn’t sell papers.

                For that matter, neither does TEENAGERS WORK NIGHT AND DAY IN UNPRECEDENTED LEVELS OF REVISION AND EXAM PREPARATION AND BREAK PREVIOUS SUCCESS RECORDS AGAIN BECAUSE TEACHERS AND SCHOOLS ARE GRADED AS FAILING UNLESS RESULTS RISE CONTINUOUSLY. Can you tell I have friends in the teaching profession?!

    • AndyMFK@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      66·
      2 days ago

      I’m confused as to where you fit in the Millennial demographic for you to have not known this already

        • merc@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          1·
          1 day ago

          It’s been around since the 1980s. If you didn’t know it it’s not because you’re a millennial, it’s because you weren’t part of the right subcultures when you were young / teen / 20s.

    • ILikeBoobies@lemmy.caEnglish
      141·
      1 day ago

      I know it just means you aren’t familiar with it but it’s funny you picked the millennial one as the one you had to explain to millennials.

    • tensorpudding@lemmy.worldEnglish
      27·
      2 days ago

      Millenials pwnd the n00bs with the best of the genX back in the day, but I think leetspeak was a lot more niche than say 67 is, it was very gamercoded/nerdcoded when that wasn’t cool.

      Source: am millenial who had a leetspeak AIM handle back then

      • BeardedGingerWonder@feddit.ukEnglish
        5·
        2 days ago

        Had a friend who wrote his french oral presentation out in 1337, he was allowed notes but not the word for word presentation. He showed the teacher beforehand, she said that’s fine, looks like gibberish.

      • poweruserEnglish
        5·
        2 days ago

        I did that too, but back then it was called Backtrack Linux. I bought a special Atheros chipset WiFi card for my laptop’s PCMCIA slot. The built-in 802.11b WiFi card worked under Linux but only by using the Windows ME driver in NDISWrapper, which didn’t support promiscuous mode.

        The Atheros chipsets could be configured (by flashing the firmware with a blob I got from a BBS, if I recall) to capture the traffic from nearby wireless networks. In particular, I wanted to pick up the signal from when a device first connects. There was a bug in Windows XP that could cause the WiFi to drop briefly, then promptly reconnect. By triggering that bug over and over I could capture a lot of reconnect packets in a short time frame.

        Then I’d save the data to a big file and pipe it to Aircrack and extract the Wired Equivalent Privacy password.

        I was a 1337 H4XX0|2 B-)

        Tap for spoiler

        Well, that’s how the tutorial said it would work anyway. I actually never could get enough packets captured. The signal strength was too low

        • ITGuyLevi@programming.devEnglish
          2·
          2 days ago

          Just to toss this in there, it totally wasn’t a bug, you were sending a deauth packet to force them to reconnect then recapturing their auth sequence until you had enough packets to crack the WEP key. A pretty fun demo back then was to setup a wireless bridge between an open public network and a rogue AP (usually we’d just use a pcmcia WiFi card bridge to the internal WiFi adapter); then (due to pretty much no https anywhere), you could follow peoples browsing habits, log into their MySpace/LiveJournal/DeadJournal/GeoCities/etc (passwords were pretty commonly passed in plaintext), etc.

          It was never done nefariously, but allowed us to learn a lot.

  • Vengefu1 Tuna@lemmy.zipEnglish
    33·
    2 days ago

    I was reading Wikipedia about the origins of 23 and came across this neat tidbit:

    On the RMS Titanic there was a watertight door on E Deck numbered 23 which was informally called the “skidoo door” according to the testimony of the Chief Baker Charles John Joughin.

    • [object Object]@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      1 day ago

      23 also independently came to prominence with the 23 enigma, originating with William S. Burroughs and popularized by ‘The Illuminatus! Trilogy’ and ‘Principia Discordia’. It postulates that the number 23 appears to have significance suspiciously often.