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
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hOrni@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
For millennials, like ma: 1337 means “LEET” which is short for “Elite”.
tensorpudding@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
davepleasebehave@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
back when the internet was not cool
wavebeam@lemmy.world 25 minutes ago
The internet used to be a place
grue@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
The 4311 is wrong with you? Us millennials invented 1337!
davidagain@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
Nope. Source: am gen X.
ByteJunk@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
Yep I think pops here has this one, us Millennials grew up with leet speak, it already was a thing in the 80s.
chunes@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
People get confused because leet speak had a resurgence around 1997 or so.
davidagain@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
That’s the first time anyone called me pops! NOW I feel old!
Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Y2K
AndyMFK@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 hours ago
I’m confused as to where you fit in the Millennial demographic for you to have not known this already
hOrni@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
It seems, I’m on the older side.
KENNY_LOGIN_LILLIAN@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
i installed a kali linux vm and nmap, wireshark, tcpdump, and metasploit cuz i wanna be teh 1337 h4x0r i wanted to be when i was a 15 year old in 2001
poweruser@lemmy.sdf.org 4 hours 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-)
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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.dev 1 hour 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.
BeardedGingerWonder@feddit.uk 4 hours 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.
four@lemmy.zip 6 hours ago
Same, but I was 15 like 15 years later lol
SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 9 hours ago
Ragebait. Millenials are like 40 and have back pain.
squirrel@piefed.kobel.fyi 9 hours ago
84CK P41N
Sabata11792@ani.social 2 hours ago
D0/\/'7 m4k3 f|_|/\/ 0f /\/\y 84(k
morphballganon@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
I can confirm you can in fact get back pain before the age of 40
callouscomic@lemmy.zip 8 hours ago
Batman can confirm too.
Source: Knightfall.
MyNameIsRichard@lemmy.ml 5 hours ago
Also for geeky Gen X
Valmond@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
Y35!
Ludicrous0251@piefed.zip 9 hours ago
Sorry, what? I’m a millennial, this is common knowledge for anyone who played a videogame in the last quarter century.
hoppolito@mander.xyz 9 hours 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.