For millennials, like me: 1337 means "LEET" which is short for "Elite".
this post was submitted on 23 Dec 2025
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Sorry, what? I'm a millennial, this is common knowledge for anyone who played a videogame in the last quarter century.
I was going to say, I think the perpetuation of leetspeak and most of its use falls squarely into the millennial generation's early 90s into the early 2000s.
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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.
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I'm confused as to where you fit in the Millennial demographic for you to have not known this already
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1337 h4x0r
Hack the planet
Millenials pwnd the n00bs with the best of the genX back in the day, but I think leetspeak was a lot more niche than say 67 is, it was very gamercoded/nerdcoded when that wasn't cool.
Source: am millenial who had a leetspeak AIM handle back then
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Ragebait. Millenials are like 40 and have back pain.
I know it just means you aren’t familiar with it but it’s funny you picked the millennial one as the one you had to explain to millennials.
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0118 999 881 999 119 725 3
I think it's more of a 0118 999 88199 9119 725 3
Oh, that's easy to remember!
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I was reading Wikipedia about the origins of 23 and came across this neat tidbit:
On the RMS Titanic there was a watertight door on E Deck numbered 23 which was informally called the "skidoo door" according to the testimony of the Chief Baker Charles John Joughin.
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twennyone
You stoopid
Teens in different countries have different funny numbers too funny enough. There is a thing influencing multiple civilizations to do this.
31 is funny in Turkey.
Maybe not a teen thing, but among children I think "because 789" could bring 789 into the discussion.
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Further cementing that there is an xkcd for everything.
If you're gonna include 23 skidoo... You should include being at sixes and sevens:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/At_sixes_and_sevens
67... Is very very old British slang for wrecked/confused, at odds, or hysterical.
"I was all 6's and 7's"
I think some will still understand it, although I can't remember the last time I heard anyone use it.
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67 sneaking onto the ‘funny numbers’ list is hilarious—teens are basically a standards committee now.
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