Title text:
In 1899, people were walking around shouting ‘23’ at each other and laughing, and confused reporters were writing articles trying to figure out what it meant.
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Source: https://xkcd.com/3184/
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For millennials, like me: 1337 means “LEET” which is short for “Elite”.
Sorry, what? I’m a millennial, this is common knowledge for anyone who played a videogame in the last quarter century.
Ragebait. Millenials are like 40 and have back pain.
1337 h4x0r
Hack the planet
What the h311 is wrong with you? Us millennials invented 1337!
Nope. Source: am gen X.
Yep I think pops here has this one, us Millennials grew up with leet speak, it already was a thing in the 80s.
That’s the first time anyone called me pops! NOW I feel old!
Sorry to hear that, gramps!
(Am also Gen X. Sigh…)
People get confused because leet speak had a resurgence around 1997 or so.
Yeah it was common on BBSes late 80s at least. Also am gen X.
Y2K
42 is undeniably the funniest number
“Now, my story begins in nineteen dickety two. We had to say dickety 'cause the kaiser had stolen our word twenty….”
0118 999 881 999 119 725 3
Oh, that’s easy to remember!
I feel like (6, 7) should definitely be a tuple
Deaf people - 258 (very interesting) and 84 (there’s no good direct translation for this)
I don’t get the 258 and 84 one, also deaf.
258 = very interesting. 2 being v, you sign “very”, and then using 5 into 8 from ahead of your face/nose area for “interest” sign.
And for 84, try and sign it kinda side way. Kinda like “terrible” sign, but you would say it after crazy or whatever happened.
Like “oh really? 84!”
Ah then it’s probably a different sign language, mine does not do it like that.
I was referring to ASL, what’s your sign language?
Maybe not a teen thing, but among children I think “because 789” could bring 789 into the discussion.
That only works in English though and while it does have a pun, I dont see it gaining any cult status…
1337 also only works in English.
The cult status is a good point, though.
all the older ones at least had some kind of meaning behind them, this new shit is actual brainrot.
Ok boomer
67 is the police code for a homicide. Kids just didn’t understand it and thought it referred to something else.
What about Schfifty-Five?
Three fiddy?
Tree-fiddy came so close to making the list I think but it feels right that it didn’t.
Missing “about three-fitty”
Tree fiddy
true I misspelled that :/
