l33+15m

Keeks

There has been a lot of l33+ 5p3k on the boards lately. A lot of ppl talking the talk but do they remeber how it used to be. Found this acticle and i thought i'd shared it w/ u. Takes me back to the good old days of the fidonet.


The good 'ol days. Do you remember those? Back when you could be 'leet no matter how much of a geek you really were. You had the coolest alias in the world: 'drag0n slayer' or 'c00l d00d'. We knew we were the sh*t. We had numbers in our name and we were proud. In fact, we even sp3lt w1th numb3rs. r3m3mb3r th4t? We were kewl. Back in the day ...

Of course, only the 'leetest of the 'leet would have a phat BBS. Even though all the BBS's were running the same versions of Renegade, and they were all basically exact clones of one another, you knew in your heart that your's was the coolest. It was the coolest cause you were standing strong with over 50 users. It was the coolest because your message board was popular and even had one of those stupid 'war zone' message rooms. You had what everyone was looking for. The necessities, the warezzzz, the cracks, and yes of course, the p0rn. Your amazing BBS, where only the coolest people would have access to the warez and porn. The access password was usually sex, god, or secret (yeah admit it .. we've all watched that movie over and over). And your BBS had an amazing name ... like .. 'The Terminator BBS' .. or 'Purple Paradise' .. or .. something else that didn't seem so gay at the time. Some of the 'leet people would even name their board after their favorite rap group - cause they were the sh*t. Oh yes .. and if you were really good .. mom might even get you another phone line. C'mon ... we all loved the two node BBS's. ah back in tha' day.

Naturally, if you were warez distro, you'd have a 0 - 7 day warez policy. Ah .. and don't forget .. "If you want to join this 'leet BBS, you must upload 3 items of your latest 0-7 day warez. At that point I will screw you over and ban you .. and not even thank you for building up my collection of 'leet warez". Didn't you hate those boards? The sysop's always thought they were so cool ... well I'll show them one day, damit ... I'll show them.

And yes .. Sysops.. was there ever an agreement on how it was pronounced? S-ih-Sop .. ?... or S-eye-Sop? Me .. I'm still going for S-eye-Sop .. Who cares about the fact that sysop stands for System Operator.

If your name ever had over 3 abnormal ascii characters in it, you could be labeled a k-rad dude ... Some users names you couldn't even pronounce.. right? Maybe you had one of those programs ... a TSR (anyone remember those?) .. that would change all your alphanumeric characters to cool ASCii Characters.

Oh .. and if you were one of the few girls to BBS, you wouldn't have any trouble getting 'leech' access to anything. All you had to do is have a name like 'Cyber Princess' or 'Amanda' or .. uhm .. 'Mimes' ... Girls who BBS'ed got hit on so much it wasn't funny. Actually ... yeah .. I guess it was. Half the time they were just guys who were slightly sick in the head and little more slightly retarded.

Were you ever a hacker? ... Ever take down a rival BBS? Format someone's C:? ... oh yes .. I think we all know the 'echo y|format c:'. (oh yeah .. don't try that at home kids). Do you remember hacking a BBS because the sysop was a dick .. and then formatting his hard drive .. then going to your friends house after to go check out his 'kewl' ansi's? Only to later realize you forgot to use a diverter or *%#^'in *67? Yep ... that sucked. I mean would suck .. wouldn't it ..

Ansi's were our best way of interfacing with our user. So it was our duty to make the best pictures we could from a colourful ascii character set. Some were total crap, others drew ansi's with their mouse .. and some people were really good at them .. were you?

You knew you were a good ANSi artist if:

You typed with the CAPS lock on and kept all the vowels (except for y of course) lowercase
or you did the opposite, all lower case ... and your all your o's had to be zero's as well
Any 'er' sound in anything you typed .. was replaced with an '0r' (I am wat0r .. I hax0red that c0mput0r good.)
You were under the age of 13
You were part of ACiD or DaRK (do we all remember those)
Shout-outs were given to you at the bottom of the k-rad ansi'z
Have you ever made a good friend over a BBS? .. A good enemy ? ... Gotten in a good fight? ... Nothing like them good BBS fights. Ever had your mom leave your dad and run off with a user off of your BBS? Or gone to a bbs meet? I'm sure we all have .. right ? .. its not just me i'd assume ..

right?

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Grandpa " It's evil, I tell ya! EEEEeeevil!"
Marge " Grandpa, you said that about all the presents."
Grandpa " I just want attention."

logic1

LMAO this is well funny.. and all true.

I was "acidglaive" and hung out on the blotto and dark swamp BBS's for ages.
Jesus the good ole days.

.logic.