Dragaera

Empire of the East

Gaertk at aol.com Gaertk at aol.com
Sat Feb 22 12:30:29 PST 2003

In a message dated 2/21/2003 9:11:15 PM Eastern Standard Time, "Gametech" <voltronalpha at hotmail.com> writes:

> Another interesting thing is something called 'leet speak' 
> (as in elite).  Often 'leet speak' combines letters and 
> numbers to create what look like words. I think it's 
> origination came from actually 'Elite' computer users whom 
> would camouflage their text in a for tat was readable by 
> anyone whom knew how it worked but confused law enforcement 
> drones that would search for particular key words.

I was going to mention that Google has "l33+" as a language
option, but that seems to no longer be the case.  They do
still offer Bork Bork Bork!, Elmer Fudd, and Pig Latin 
though.

And of course, some people prefer doing their web searches
backwards ( http://www.alltooflat.com/geeky/elgoog/ ).


--KG