People get confused because leet speak had a resurgence around 1997 or so.
Comment on xkcd #3184: Funny Numbers
ByteJunk@lemmy.world 2 months agoYep 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 months ago
davidagain@lemmy.world 2 months ago
That’s the first time anyone called me pops! NOW I feel old!
sanguinepar@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Sorry to hear that, gramps!
(Am also Gen X. Sigh…)
n7gifmdn@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
If you’re GenX and no one has called you pops before you have lived a Sheltered life
davidagain@lemmy.world 2 months ago
This is a fair point. I’m a programmer and this kind of banter is not super common in my workplace. We are all a little bit odd in our own ways.