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you know what psimagus? i didn't understand i word of that! i think you put random letters! i'm actualy not very good at slang! lol!

I'll translate... *ahem* "did we? quite probably. It's difficult for us oldies I'm afraid - you'll have to make allowances..."

I'm afraid my l33t sp33k is very rusty - not that it was ever exactly fluent. And probably a generation out of date by now.

well, at least its not newspeak, or doublethink...

your not that old psimagus

I'm afraid I am. I've been on the Net since '87 - I'd call that a generation. Indeed, I remember the proto-l33t-sp33k that we thought was so cool using the first generation of LED pocket calculators. As I recall you could only make them say a few random things like "heLL0" (0.7734) or "BOO hOO" (0.04008), by holding them upside down, but it seemed quite cool when I was 12
And then they invented ASCII and programmable calculators, and it's been downhill since then.

...you could make 'em say 'shell oil' inverted, too; heh,
I think we're fairly close in age (42 here)

You got on the 'net in '87... I first got online in '98. Guess that makes me an 8 year old-- a-hem, nevermind

btw, I read your leetspeak with no trouble at all~~ I'm not sure if that's good or bad, though

your not that old psimagus

Right! I am older but I try to about it

...you could make 'em say 'shell oil' inverted, too; heh,
I think we're fairly close in age (42 here)

I'm 40 - so my life's just beginning

Yep, I remember "ShELL OIL", and "Oh hELL" - ah, a more innocent age!
I only got on the net in '87 because all my friends at Uni were doing computing - I read politics, but I buttered up the Comp.Sci department and wangled an account of my own (unheard of in those days!)

>Yep, I remember "ShELL OIL", and "Oh hELL"

Hahahaha- thanks, I had totally forgotten doing that!

I think everyone thought spelling things on calculators upside down was cool when they were twelve. My generation did that too, and I was born in '87. There's probably a cosmic rule that every pre-algebra class must spend at least half the time learning how to make their calculators spell BOOBIES.

It is heartening to hear it survived so long, but I bet it's a lost art by now. I doubt text-message-literate kids with camera-phones would see the point.