The story · 2003
The story of L33t Speak Homework
It started on game forums, then spread to notes, lockers and occasionally graded assignments. E's became threes, A's became fours and the whole thing looked like a robot had a cold. Teachers were not amused when a vocabulary quiz came back fully encoded. A few, secretly, graded it anyway.
Fun fact
The ultimate insult was being called a newbie, spelled with so many numbers it looked like a phone number.
