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Jul 9, 2011 9:14 AM CST
Name: Toni
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PPal - not my kitty, just an image I found online. And the rose is Blue Bayou, my rose. ;)

Zuzu - Just as Tabby said, w007 is "elite" (1337) talk that is rather oldschool for computer users. 1337 talk is using numbers and symbols to represent words. For instance I'll write a simple sentence in regular characters, then I'll write it again in a mix of 1337 and ASCII characters:

Toni Is A Dork

70|\|1 15 4 |)02|<

In theory, 7 looks like a "t", 5 is like an "S", 2 is close to an "R" and the regular characters are kinda like regular alphabet, but as known as ASCII characters. I used to be able to write and drawn quite nice pictures in ASCII until fonts became standard on all of these, then ASCII kind of went away because it is hard to space the characters all right when they're not all identical in size. For instance, if you were to get a ruler & measure out on the screen, you'd see that a "m" takes up much more space than an "l". Back in the day, they all took 10points of space, didn't matter if it was an "m" or an "l". Think of a dot matrix printer versus a laser printer and using Times New Roman versus Courier.

When I was much younger (college), ASCII was all the rage (kinda like elementary kids & pig latin, but teachers could understand pig latin). So if you could read/write in ASCII, you were da bomb. LOL Writing everything in ASCII took time and suddenly more high-tech computer geeks came on the scene on IRC (the precursor of our chat rooms.. I was on IRC & IRC ii, what we know as IM and Yahoo Chatrooms are an example of IRC 3 (IRC stands for Internet Relay Chat)), they were writing programs that would translate your normal written sentences into ASCII or 1337 and it because passe'. Thus, no one uses it any more. It's more of a standing joke on a forum I used to haunt in the mid 2000s 'cuz if you hit the "!" button and hold it and get distracted, you'll drop the "shift" button and, thus, instead of doing a bunch of !! points, your sentence could look like this:

w007!!!!!!!!!111!!!1111

and then it became expanded to include the word "eleventyone". Not really sure who exactly coined that phrase, but it took everything by storm by Dec 2004 and died by June 2005. Only old timers used eleventyone (although you see it every once in a while on icanhascheezburger.com) But the phrase eleventyone was to mean extremely super excited to the point of peeing in your pants type excitement.

Like I said, I'm a dork.
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