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Title text:
In 1899, people were walking around shouting ‘23’ at each other and laughing, and confused reporters were writing articles trying to figure out what it meant.
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Source: xkcd.com/3184/
I feel like (6, 7) should definitely be a tuple
For millennials, like ma: 1337 means “LEET” which is short for “Elite”.
Also for geeky Gen X
Sorry, what? I’m a millennial, this is common knowledge for anyone who played a videogame in the last quarter century.
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.
Y35!
I’m confused as to where you fit in the Millennial demographic for you to have not known this already
It seems, I’m on the older side.
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
Same, but I was 15 like 15 years later lol
Ragebait. Millenials are like 40 and have back pain.
84CK P41N
I can confirm you can in fact get back pain before the age of 40
What about Schfifty-Five?
Three fiddy?
Tree-fiddy came so close to making the list I think but it’s T feels right that it didn’t.
Shiggity Schwat
Girlfriend’s age?
all the older ones at least had some kind of meaning behind them, this new shit is actual brainrot.
Some kind of meaning behind them, huh?
Let me ask you something…
Can you count…
All the way…
To shfifty-five?
But this isn’t even a fair comparison because that’s literally a whole ass song with an animation compared to a dumb kid in some viral video saying six or seven
Shwam.
Doo.
Two and helf.
Scheven.
Schfourteen-teen.
Shwenty One.
Shwenty-Seven and Helf
27
37
WHAT YOU SAY?!!
What’s the meaning of 42? ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡° )
It was Jackie Robinson’s number
What did 23 mean? I thought the post was pointing out it meant nothing? 69 is a position, 420 smoke weed, boobs, 42 was a nonsense joke that meant nothing as well. They just defined it as the meaning of life for no reason from what I know… so 23, and 67 seem about the same, running closely behind 42
42 is from The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams. They built an enormous computer that is the most powerful ever built to calculate the answer to the question of life, the universe and everything. The computer, after many years of processing, came up with 42. The confused crowd that gathered to hear the answer did not understand. Turns out, 42 is the correct answer, but what is the question?
Additionally, while technically imbued with ‘meaning’, even the number 420 itself is somewhat meaningless and was originally used to delineate those who knew from those who don’t. It’s just that it got famous enough that we now almost all know.
In that sense I would argue it filled more or less the same function as 67.
23 was before my time, but it is 1/3 of 69, so there’s that.
23 is from the movie of the guy escaping from the number 23 I think?
That number is just an example of a specific category of absurd humor. It’s rare to see that sort of thing applied to numbers though. In other situations, we’ve all seen it. Just repeat any dumb thing a hundred times and suddenly it becomes funny. You could look at pretty much any TV comedy. Pick any decade, like 60’s, 70’s, 90’s or whatever. The rule is very simple: Just repeat it and it becomes funny at some point.
What’s funnier than 24?
25
67 is the police code for a homocide. Kids just didn’t understand it and thought it referred to something else.
What
Teens in different countries have different funny numbers too funny enough. There is a thing influencing multiple civilizations to do this.
I’m still disappointed that 27 never managed to get on this list: www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2-7CqYFi64
Nazi dog whistles do not go on the fun numbers board.
That one isn’t funny.
Vengefu1Tuna@lemmy.zip 2 minutes ago
I was reading Wikipedia about the origins of 23 and came across this neat tidbit: