The 4311 is wrong with you? Us millennials invented 1337!
Comment on xkcd #3184: Funny Numbers
hOrni@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
For millennials, like ma: 1337 means “LEET” which is short for “Elite”.
grue@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
davidagain@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Nope. Source: am gen X.
ByteJunk@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Yep I think pops here has this one, us Millennials grew up with leet speak, it already was a thing in the 80s.
davidagain@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
That’s the first time anyone called me pops! NOW I feel old!
chunes@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
People get confused because leet speak had a resurgence around 1997 or so.
Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Y2K
davidagain@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I remember it well.
The newspapers were apoplectic about the coming millennium bug Armageddon (hospital equipment was all going to crash because programmes encoded a date as two digits and everyone was going to accidentally become of negatively age and all timers would break.
COBOL programmers: there’s a serious issue with banking and other business systems and we need to concentrate on this above Abby other issue 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 CRASHMillienium 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?
AndyMFK@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
I’m confused as to where you fit in the Millennial demographic for you to have not known this already
hOrni@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
It seems, I’m on the older side.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
if you’re in your 40s and don’t know this i’m worried.
merc@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks 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.
tensorpudding@lemmy.world 2 weeks 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
davepleasebehave@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
back when the internet was not cool
wavebeam@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
The internet used to be a place
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
oh they had designers then
gangdinesout@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Yeah, I had my Facebook set to leetspeak back in the day when it was restricted to college students. Of course, Zuckerborg was still a POS and I got rid of my Facebook ages ago
SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
Ragebait. Millenials are like 40 and have back pain.
squirrel@piefed.kobel.fyi 2 weeks ago
84CK P41N
Sabata11792@ani.social 2 weeks ago
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morphballganon@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I can confirm you can in fact get back pain before the age of 40
callouscomic@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Batman can confirm too.
Source: Knightfall.
KENNY_LOGIN_LILLIAN@lemmy.world 2 weeks 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
BeardedGingerWonder@feddit.uk 2 weeks 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.
poweruser@lemmy.sdf.org 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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.
four@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Same, but I was 15 like 15 years later lol
ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 2 weeks 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.
MyNameIsRichard@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
Also for geeky Gen X
Valmond@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Y35!
Ludicrous0251@piefed.zip 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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.