I found that link on Boingboing: www.600673.com is a Google in a hacker speak. Now that's totally phun ny and wicked. For those "in the tank": hacker speak is a form of english language transcription, used by hackers both for fun and for serious purposes (sort of one of "masonic" signs).
Here is a crash course in a h4x0r speak.
Some letters are substituted by digits: A - 4, E - 3, G - 6, I - 1, L - 7, O - 0, S - 5, T - + (or 7), Z - 2. N may be subsituted by |\|, P - by |o, R - by |2, l - by |, c - by (, D - by |), W - by VV and so on.
's' at the end of words in plural case is often substituted by 'z' (5k1||z instead of skills, for example). F is often substituted by 'ph' (like in ph4mi1y) - that tradition began with a word 'phreak' which stands for 'phone breaker' but sounds like freak.
The most famous number (yes, number) in h4x0r sp3ak is 31337 which stands for 'eleet' (that is 'elite'). Used to show extreme level of ski11z: "H3 i5 r341 31337" - "He is a really skillful hacker".
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Submitted by frolov on Thu, 2005-03-31 22:48.
