• hOrni@lemmy.worldEnglish
    559·
    11 days ago

    For millennials, like me: 1337 means “LEET” which is short for “Elite”.

    • grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
      373·
      11 days ago

      What the h311 is wrong with you? Us millennials invented 1337!

        • ByteJunk@lemmy.worldEnglish
          15·
          11 days ago

          Yep I think pops here has this one, us Millennials grew up with leet speak, it already was a thing in the 80s.

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            5·
            10 days ago

            I remember it well.

            The newspapers were apoplectic about the coming millennium bug Armageddon (hospital equipment was all going to crash because programmers encoded a date as two digits to save what was then rather sparse memory and storage space, and everyone was going to accidentally become of negative age and all timers would temporarily give very wrong answers.

            COBOL programmers: there’s a serious issue with banking and other business systems and we need to concentrate on this above above other issues 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 CRASH

            Millienium 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?

            • ByteJunk@lemmy.worldEnglish
              2·
              10 days ago

              Ahahah I experienced only the media narrative, and it did play out exactly as you described it.

              Of course now it comes to reason that many people were actively working to fix the problem, but they never really explained that part on TV.

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                1·
                9 days ago

                Lol no, they did not!

                NERDS WORK VERY HARD INDEED AND FIX BUGS IN MASSIVE NUMBERS OF SYSTEMS doesn’t sell papers.

                For that matter, neither does TEENAGERS WORK NIGHT AND DAY IN UNPRECEDENTED LEVELS OF REVISION AND EXAM PREPARATION AND BREAK PREVIOUS SUCCESS RECORDS AGAIN BECAUSE TEACHERS AND SCHOOLS ARE GRADED AS FAILING UNLESS RESULTS RISE CONTINUOUSLY. Can you tell I have friends in the teaching profession?!

    • tensorpudding@lemmy.worldEnglish
      161·
      11 days 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

    • ILikeBoobies@lemmy.caEnglish
      91·
      10 days 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.

      • SaraTonin@lemmy.worldEnglish
        101·
        10 days ago

        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.

  • Jankatarch@lemmy.worldEnglish
    13·
    9 days ago

    Teens in different countries have different funny numbers too funny enough. There is a thing influencing multiple civilizations to do this.

    31 is funny in Turkey.

  • Guillermosaenz@lemmy.worldEnglish
    102·
    10 days ago

    67 sneaking onto the ‘funny numbers’ list is hilarious—teens are basically a standards committee now.

  • OhStopYellingAtMe@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    10 days ago

    “Now, my story begins in nineteen dickety two. We had to say dickety 'cause the kaiser had stolen our word twenty….”

  • psycotica0@lemmy.caEnglish
    7·
    10 days ago

    Maybe not a teen thing, but among children I think “because 789” could bring 789 into the discussion.

  • Lightsong@lemmy.worldEnglish
    61·
    10 days ago

    Deaf people - 258 (very interesting) and 84 (there’s no good direct translation for this)