Talk:Leet

message: Does anyone know what could be a reason why this happens here? I mean they leetspeak freemasonry?!
Are they promasonic or antimasonic racists?! All 450 Volts capacitors are all leetspeaked freemasonry related,
fr33m450nry, so to speak. Only few weapons experts yet claim, this in reality is n**i third reich nonsense related.
And that this has NOTHING to do with the UN itself, as the UN hates the third reich for a reason!
--94.134.91.36 (talk) 03:19, 28 April 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Ok, unrelated to ANYTHING, but its so f\/(|n9  (I'm terrible at that) funny but theres a user (and I cant spell their username) who only knows leet. They understand English, but probably cant write it! His talk page cracks me up (dispite it seeming to be gibberish)! Just hoped to add some humor to your day. --  L10nM4st3r (talk) 19:57, 5 July 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  for some reason, actual wannabe elites of any kind by means of weapons and electronics of any kind leetspeak freemasonry 

message: In response to "without extra "...3" digit for the silent "-e")"; the -e suffix is definitely pronounced. ~victorsouza (talk) 04:03, 18 October 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  There is no silent -e in liebe 

message: "Leet originated within bulletin board systems (BBS) in the 1980s, where having "elite" status on a BBS allowed a user access to file folders, games, and special chat rooms. "
"Leet" predated BBSes by more than a decade. The term arose when someone noticed how the LCD (not LED) screens, when you had 1337 on it (there was a serif on the bottom of the "1") and looked at it upside down, it "spelled" "LEET"... this quickly made the rounds, I first encountered it ca. 1974 or 1975. Another one was "7734", which, with the open-4 (most text uses closed 4s), looked like "hELL" upside down.
I haven't done anything to the entry, because I can't "document" this, but it's blatantly wrong. It should be elided, if not edited for correction. OBloodyHell (talk) 18:45, 28 October 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: I doubt this article is correct in its claims of origin. Handheld calculators of the 1960s and '70s were mostly *only* able to output 7 bits corresponding to the straight lines in the numeral 8 (three vertical (top, middle, bottom) and two pairs of two (vertical on left and right)). With these building blocks, along with the digits 0 thru 9, various letters could be output: A, C, E, F, G, H, I, J, L, O, P, R, S, T, U, Y, and b, c, d, h, i, o, r (or lc gamma), u. (18 of English's 26). In the early 70's, I had a TI calculator that I could program to display those characters, and with a couple of two place code combinations the remaining 8 as well. This clearly was a predecessor of anything similar that appeared 10 years later. It seems like the leetspeak is far less 1:1 with the English alphabet, and that it is not just a superset of the calculator speak, but neglecting to give credit where credit is due is wrong.72.16.96.150 (talk) 03:06, 24 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Not even vaguely true 

message: nobody would know what this means and it seems like a really random example - Awesomecat713 (talk) 02:41, 15 December 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: My, my, ironially, early Internet users born in 1987 had to face the leeth' peak 109.252.65.192 (talk) 22:23, 16 July 2023 (UTC)

text: IGBT fits along with LCD displays - things popular in the previous century. The laptop in the title photo also appears to be made somewhere in the 90's or 2000. 81.89.66.133 (talk) 08:01, 7 August 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  insulated-gate bipolar transistors? 

message: Leet has been out of fashion for many years now, and it only ever sees use with nostalgic connotations. The history of its use should be documented, lest we forget when it was actually relevant. 62.198.142.189 (talk) 22:12, 8 January 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: I disagree, as it still has relevance in 202X, as various gamers still use l33t-like orthography modifications to go around a plethora of already taken and abandoned nicknames on Steam. Or to insult or cuss or both thru a filter (see Algospeak subsection for examples). 81.89.66.133 (talk) 15:39, 16 January 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  This page ought to have recent history documented