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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For millennials, like me: 1337 means "LEET" which is short for "Elite".
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Ludicrous0251 - 17hr
Sorry, what? I'm a millennial, this is common knowledge for anyone who played a videogame in the last quarter century.
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hoppolito @mander.xyz - 17hr
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.
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grue @lemmy.world - 17hr
What the h311 is wrong with you? Us millennials invented 1337!
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Log in | Sign up - 15hr
Nope. Source: am gen X.
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ByteJunk @lemmy.world - 15hr
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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Log in | Sign up - 15hr
That's the first time anyone called me pops! NOW I feel old!
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SanguinePar - 3hr
Sorry to hear that, gramps!
(Am also Gen X. Sigh...)
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veroxii - 12hr
Yeah it was common on BBSes late 80s at least. Also am gen X.
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chunes @lemmy.world - 9hr
People get confused because leet speak had a resurgence around 1997 or so.
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AndyMFK @lemmy.dbzer0.com - 16hr
I'm confused as to where you fit in the Millennial demographic for you to have not known this already
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hOrni @lemmy.world - 16hr
It seems, I'm on the older side.
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BeeegScaaawyCripple - 5hr
if you're in your 40s and don't know this i'm worried.
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affenlehrer @feddit.org - 18hr
1337 h4x0r
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qbus @lemmy.world - 16hr
Hack the planet
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tensorpudding @lemmy.world - 11hr
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
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davepleasebehave @lemmy.world - 10hr
back when the internet was not cool
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wavebeam @lemmy.world - 8hr
The internet used to be a place
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BeeegScaaawyCripple - 5hr
oh they had designers then
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gangdinesout @lemmy.world - 2hr
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
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SaharaMaleikuhm @feddit.org - 17hr
Ragebait. Millenials are like 40 and have back pain.
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squirrel - 17hr
84CK P41N
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Sabata - 10hr
D0/\/'7 m4k3 f|_|/\/ 0f /\/\y 84(k
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KENNY_LOGIN_LILLIAN @lemmy.world - 15hr
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
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BeardedGingerWonder @feddit.uk - 12hr
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.
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poweruser @lemmy.sdf.org - 12hr
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-)
::: spoiler Tap for spoiler
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
:::
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ITGuyLevi @programming.dev - 9hr
Just to toss this in there, it totally wasn't a bug, you were sending a deauth packet to force them to reconnect then recapturing their auth sequence until you had enough packets to crack the WEP key. A pretty fun demo back then was to setup a wireless bridge between an open public network and a rogue AP (usually we'd just use a pcmcia WiFi card bridge to the internal WiFi adapter); then (due to pretty much no https anywhere), you could follow peoples browsing habits, log into their MySpace/LiveJournal/DeadJournal/GeoCities/etc (passwords were pretty commonly passed in plaintext), etc.
It was never done nefariously, but allowed us to learn a lot.
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four @lemmy.zip - 13hr
Same, but I was 15 like 15 years later lol
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ILikeBoobies @lemmy.ca - 6hr
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.
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MyNameIsRichard @lemmy.ml - 13hr
Also for geeky Gen X
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Valmond @lemmy.world - 13hr
Y35!
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wieson @feddit.org - 15hr
I feel like (6, 7) should definitely be a tuple
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Trev625 @sopuli.xyz - 18hr
What about Schfifty-Five?
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hOrni @lemmy.world - 18hr
Three fiddy?
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showmeyourkizinti @startrek.website - 14hr
Tree-fiddy came so close to making the list I think but it feels right that it didn’t.
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.
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[object Object] - 40min
23 also independently came to prominence with the 23 enigma, originating with William S. Burroughs and popularized by ‘The Illuminatus! Trilogy’ and ‘Principia Discordia’. It postulates that the number 23 appears to have significance suspiciously often.
all the older ones at least had some kind of meaning behind them, this new shit is actual brainrot.
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recentSlinky - 18hr
What's the meaning of 42? ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡° )
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WHARRGARBL @lemmy.world - 18hr
It’s the answer
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Thaurin @lemmy.world - 17hr
But what is the question?
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Appoxo @lemmy.dbzer0.com - 16hr
That is the real question!
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BeeegScaaawyCripple - 5hr
we've been over this what is six times nine
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LifeInMultipleChoice @lemmy.world - 18hr
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
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Thaurin @lemmy.world - 17hr
42 is from The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams. They built an enormous computer called Deep Thought that was the most powerful ever built to calculate the answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe and Everything. The computer, after 75 million 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?
So after that, they decide to build another computer, which is planet Earth, to figure out the question.
It was still calculating when it was destroyed by the Vogons to make space for a hyperspace bypass.
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LifeInMultipleChoice @lemmy.world - 16hr
Yeah I remember that, saying 42 is the answer to everything was what I called nonsense, as I could just as easily say 42 meaning everything is is the product you get from, 6 7 (meaning nothing). Poof, now everything is a multiple of nothing, and at the end of the day none of it made any sense or had any meaning
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Melmi - 16hr
Funny enough, there's a point in a later book in the series where they suggest the "ultimate question'" that 42 is an answer to could be "What do you get if you multiply six by nine?"
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MyNameIsRichard @lemmy.ml - 12hr
Which works in base 13!
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atopi - 9hr
Im 93% sure that 6*9 doesnt equal 42 in base 6227020800
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BeeegScaaawyCripple - 5hr
which, when a mathemagician occasionally asked adams about it, he would respond along the lines of "oh fuck"
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hoppolito @mander.xyz - 17hr
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.
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Hazel - 13hr
I'd like to add that that's called a shibboleth :)
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Thaurin @lemmy.world - 17hr
I’ve heard it said that 420 referred to the time 4:20 pm, when a group would come together to smoke, but that sounds contrived.
420 can also refer to the birth date of Adolf Hitler, which makes 420 a bit darker than just “haha, smoke.”
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toynbee @lemmy.world - 16hr
23 was before my time, but it is 1/3 of 69, so there's that.
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bottleofchips - 16hr
Ni
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0x0 @lemmy.zip - 12hr
Ni's NaN though and they no longer say it.
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TrillianAstra - 10hr
Japanese would argue otherwise, 二 is certainly a number.
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boonhet @sopuli.xyz - 16hr
23 is from the movie of the guy escaping from the number 23 I think?
Oh shit I forgot that movie, that was a Jim Carrey movie wasn't it
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boonhet @sopuli.xyz - 11hr
I think so
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Hamartiogonic @sopuli.xyz - 17hr
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.
You could also say that the seeds of brain rot are older than we dare to admit. The 2020s just distilled it to its purest form yet.
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Tower @lemmy.zip - 15hr
What's funnier than 24?
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tyler @programming.dev - 18hr
67 is the police code for a homicide. Kids just didn’t understand it and thought it referred to something else.
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xkcd #3184: Funny Numbers
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For millennials, like me: 1337 means "LEET" which is short for "Elite".
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.
What the h311 is wrong with you? Us millennials invented 1337!
Nope. Source: am gen X.
Yep I think pops here has this one, us Millennials grew up with leet speak, it already was a thing in the 80s.
That's the first time anyone called me pops! NOW I feel old!
Sorry to hear that, gramps!
(Am also Gen X. Sigh...)
Yeah it was common on BBSes late 80s at least. Also am gen X.
People get confused because leet speak had a resurgence around 1997 or so.
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.
if you're in your 40s and don't know this i'm worried.
1337 h4x0r
Hack the planet
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
back when the internet was not cool
The internet used to be a place
oh they had designers then
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
Ragebait. Millenials are like 40 and have back pain.
84CK P41N
D0/\/'7 m4k3 f|_|/\/ 0f /\/\y 84(ki 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
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.
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-)
::: spoiler Tap for spoiler 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 :::
Just to toss this in there, it totally wasn't a bug, you were sending a deauth packet to force them to reconnect then recapturing their auth sequence until you had enough packets to crack the WEP key. A pretty fun demo back then was to setup a wireless bridge between an open public network and a rogue AP (usually we'd just use a pcmcia WiFi card bridge to the internal WiFi adapter); then (due to pretty much no https anywhere), you could follow peoples browsing habits, log into their MySpace/LiveJournal/DeadJournal/GeoCities/etc (passwords were pretty commonly passed in plaintext), etc.
It was never done nefariously, but allowed us to learn a lot.
Same, but I was 15 like 15 years later lol
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.
Also for geeky Gen X
Y35!
I feel like (6, 7) should definitely be a tuple
What about Schfifty-Five?
Three fiddy?
Tree-fiddy came so close to making the list I think but it feels right that it didn’t.
Shiggity Schwat
Girlfriend's age?
My IQ
Fourteen-teen
https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/a10b9b8c-d90b-4ed8-90e7-bea2f9cdb4a1.jpeg
I was reading Wikipedia about the origins of 23 and came across this neat tidbit:
23 also independently came to prominence with the 23 enigma, originating with William S. Burroughs and popularized by ‘The Illuminatus! Trilogy’ and ‘Principia Discordia’. It postulates that the number 23 appears to have significance suspiciously often.
Missing "about three-fitty"
I'm not a mathematican, but
https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/8ba987a5-b340-456f-adae-0d1687ef80fb.gif
Tree fiddy
true I misspelled that :/
all the older ones at least had some kind of meaning behind them, this new shit is actual brainrot.
What's the meaning of 42? ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡° )
It’s the answer
But what is the question?
That is the real question!
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 called Deep Thought that was the most powerful ever built to calculate the answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe and Everything. The computer, after 75 million 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?
So after that, they decide to build another computer, which is planet Earth, to figure out the question.
It was still calculating when it was destroyed by the Vogons to make space for a hyperspace bypass.
Yeah I remember that, saying 42 is the answer to everything was what I called nonsense, as I could just as easily say 42 meaning everything is is the product you get from, 6 7 (meaning nothing). Poof, now everything is a multiple of nothing, and at the end of the day none of it made any sense or had any meaning
Funny enough, there's a point in a later book in the series where they suggest the "ultimate question'" that 42 is an answer to could be "What do you get if you multiply six by nine?"
Which works in base 13!
Im 93% sure that 6*9 doesnt equal 42 in base 6227020800
which, when a mathemagician occasionally asked adams about it, he would respond along the lines of "oh fuck"
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.
I'd like to add that that's called a shibboleth :)
I’ve heard it said that 420 referred to the time 4:20 pm, when a group would come together to smoke, but that sounds contrived.
420 can also refer to the birth date of Adolf Hitler, which makes 420 a bit darker than just “haha, smoke.”
23 was before my time, but it is 1/3 of 69, so there's that.
Ni
Ni's NaN though and they no longer say it.
Japanese would argue otherwise, 二 is certainly a number.
23 is from the movie of the guy escaping from the number 23 I think?
No
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Illuminatus!_Trilogy
Thank you. I didn't know what 23 was about
Oh shit I forgot that movie, that was a Jim Carrey movie wasn't it
I think so
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.
You could also say that the seeds of brain rot are older than we dare to admit. The 2020s just distilled it to its purest form yet.
What's funnier than 24?
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67 is the police code for a homicide. Kids just didn’t understand it and thought it referred to something else.
I thought that’s 187
In California it’s 187.
And now I gotta listen to sublime
That might just be California. In standard “10” police codes, it’s 67. https://www.police1.com/resources/articles/police-codes-VqFqvwMyjl6GES0f/
187 is homicide, yes, but it says there 67 is homocide. You're welcome.
Thanks. Fucking ios keyboard gets worse every day.
Ok 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.
Schfifty-five.
Shiggity shawh
67 sneaking onto the ‘funny numbers’ list is hilarious—teens are basically a standards committee now.
Bot account? Comments seem like your average "short and humorous response" bot.
Definitely a bot, not sure what the point of them is on Lemmy.
0118 999 881 999 119 725 3
I've had a bit of a tumble
Oh, that's easy to remember!
42 is undeniably the funniest number
Sorry for the inconvenience.
Needs to add my favorite number: 8647
and 1312
Deaf people - 258 (very interesting) and 84 (there's no good direct translation for this)
Huh, I had never considered deaf slang before. Is there somewhere to read up on this?
twennyone
You stoopid
“Now, my story begins in nineteen dickety two. We had to say dickety 'cause the kaiser had stolen our word twenty….”
58,008 clearly wins.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cG3Y0npvS5c
Women and men love it!
That took me so long to figure out, I'm embarrassed
Tree fiddy
Where's 3.50?
Get outa here ya lock ness
There really is an xkcd for everything.
They forgot 37.
My girlfriend acquired 37 limes In a row?!!
Head-In-Fridge
Strong Bad made seven fifty funny too :)