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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.
Transcript:
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Source: xkcd.com/3184/
I feel like (6, 7) should definitely be a tuple
6’7" is a single value.
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.
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.
Fourteen-teen
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.
Missing “about three-fitty”
Tree fiddy
Dammit Loch Ness monster…
true I misspelled that :/
0118 999 881 999 119 725 3
Oh, that’s easy to remember!
I think it’s more of a 0118 999 88199 9119 725 3
I’ve had a bit of a tumble
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?
Shwam.
Doo.
Two and helf.
Scheven.
Schfourteen-teen.
Shwenty One.
Shwenty-Seven and Helf
27
37
WHAT YOU SAY?!!
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
What’s the meaning of 42? ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡° )
It was Jackie Robinson’s number
we’ve been over this what is six times nine
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.
Okay boomer
It’s the children who are wrong
What
Teens in different countries have different funny numbers too funny enough. There is a thing influencing multiple civilizations to do this.
Where’s 3.50?
Get outa here ya lock ness
It was about that time that I noticed that sweet little verilyfemme was a three story tall crustacean from the Mesozoic era!
67 sneaking onto the ‘funny numbers’ list is hilarious—teens are basically a standards committee now.
42 is undeniably the funniest number
If you’re gonna include 23 skidoo… You should include being at sixes and sevens:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/At_sixes_and_sevens
67…
…but also, where is 1337? The comic is not 1337 enough.
58,008 clearly wins.
Deaf people - 258 (very interesting) and 84 (there’s no good direct translation for this)
“Now, my story begins in nineteen dickety two. We had to say dickety 'cause the kaiser had stolen our word twenty….”
Needs to add my favorite number: 8647
Maybe not a teen thing, but among children I think “because 789” could bring 789 into the discussion.
Further cementing that there is an xkcd for everything.
They left out 86 and the more recent variant 8647
There really is an xkcd for everything.
Tree fiddy
8675309
I’m still disappointed that 27 never managed to get on this list: www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2-7CqYFi64
1 hehe
231, twenty three is number one!
hOrni@lemmy.world 1 month ago
For millennials, like ma: 1337 means “LEET” which is short for “Elite”.
Ludicrous0251@piefed.zip 1 month 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 1 month 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.world 1 month ago
The 4311 is wrong with you? Us millennials invented 1337!
davidagain@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Nope. Source: am gen X.
AndyMFK@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
I’m confused as to where you fit in the Millennial demographic for you to have not known this already
hOrni@lemmy.world 1 month ago
It seems, I’m on the older side.
affenlehrer@feddit.org 1 month ago
1337 h4x0r
qbus@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Hack the planet
tensorpudding@lemmy.world 1 month 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 1 month ago
back when the internet was not cool
gangdinesout@lemmy.world 1 month 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 1 month ago
Ragebait. Millenials are like 40 and have back pain.
squirrel@piefed.kobel.fyi 1 month ago
84CK P41N
morphballganon@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I can confirm you can in fact get back pain before the age of 40
KENNY_LOGIN_LILLIAN@lemmy.world 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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
four@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
Same, but I was 15 like 15 years later lol
ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 1 month 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 1 month ago
Also for geeky Gen X
Valmond@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Y35!