This dates back to the -iz- infix, which goes back to at least when Chris Rock was still on SNL, using it in "I'm Chillin".
I only posted this because I like saying "infix".
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Nick, you posted about PWN3D!!!1! as well...now, I understand "owned" and even "0wnz0r3d!!1!"--but where and when did that "P" come in the picture? Is it because of the physical proximity to O on the keyboard? A wordplay on making someone your "P"awn as well? Or what?
I suspect the proximity of o and p (and 0 for that matter) is in play. Another example of that is the not-infrequently-seen newsfroup for newsgroup. Newsfroup is more pleasant to say, I think. I think I usually see pwn3d! mostly in lowercase.
"iz" infix goes back at least as far as Frankie Smith and the Double Dutch Bus in 1980 (injecting names of members of the crew with 10cc of "iz": Bizetty, Tizommy, et izal.)
I always understood the "p" in pwn3d to have come from the proximity to the "o" as well. What I want to know is, when did "hacker" gain two Xs and a zero?
Hacker became Hax0r when Geocities and Tripod and other like freebie webpage places started crax0ring down on hacking and warez websites that their users put up, in violation of TOS. In short, "hack" and "hacker" were replaced in order to avoid inspections triggered by keyword searching by the Geocity netcops. As for why x? I can see how "hacks" could easily become "hax" and it could spread from haxor (which I've seen" to hax0r via the nominal B1FFization of words left in t3h hands of 14-year-old boys. As for when it happen3d, I would say 1996.
Hacker became Hax0r when Geocities and Tripod and other like freebie webpage places started crax0ring down on hacking and warez websites that their users put up, in violation of TOS. In short, "hack" and "hacker" were replaced in order to avoid inspections triggered by keyword searching by the Geocity netcops. As for why x? I can see how "hacks" could easily become "hax" and it could spread from haxor (which I've seen" to hax0r via the nominal B1FFization of words left in t3h hands of 14-year-old boys. As for when it happen3d, I would say 1996.
1996 sounds right, as I remember it.
That's interesting, I didn't know there were even theories as to its origins, and that one sounds pretty plausible. 1996 does sound about right. I think Bong Philter, what I think is the original name for l33t 5p3ak, existed prior to 1996. All in all its pretty dynamic and many things come and go, with a few things sticking. I remember a brief time when it was all about juarez before it went back to warez. If you are looking for the latest, you'll always find it on IRC.
Latest lingo that is, not (just) the latest juarez.