We call ourselves 1337Camp or Home of the Elite. But what does the number 1337 actually mean? To understand the meaning, you have to go back about 20 years in the history of gaming.
Hacker "Sp33k" for leet, or elite. Originating from 31337 "eleet", the UDP port used by Dead Cow Cult, a hacker group, to access Windows 95 using Back Orifice, a notorious hacking program.
Leet (or "1337"), also known as eleet or leetspeak, is a system of modified spellings used primarily on the Internet.It often uses character replacements in ways that play on the similarity of their glyphs via reflection or other resemblance. Additionally, it modifies certain words based on a system of suffixes and alternate meanings. There are many dialects or linguistic varieties in ...
1337 (pronounced "Leet") is an evil, international, anti-Christian cult, whose sole purpose is to launch terrorist attacks on America's internets and usher in the reign of Antichrist. It is controlled by computer nerds, but most of the members are brainwashed teenagers, who are brought into the fold with promises of illegal music downloads, pornography and occult power. The term leet is short ...
1337 itself comes from the word elite. Users with elite status on BBSs had the widest access to the system and usually had to be the best hackers in order to achieve that level of access—hence 1337 as slang for “skilled,” in contrast to n00b, or newbie.
Elite was modified to leet, then written with numbers as 1337 (1 for L, 3 for E, and 7 for T ). 1337 really started spreading during the late 1980s and early 1990s, coinciding with the rise of the internet and popular computing.
Like other online communities, Roblox uses common internet slang and slang exclusive to the community. These are words commonly used in the Roblox community, including slang.
BA - Bad Alien. Since a Roblox administrator accidentally called Alan ( JacksSmirkingRevenge) "Alien", this abbreviation was in popular use during TNL Twitch live streams. It has since fallen out of use and is rarely used. Banned forever - Termination of a Roblox account, phrase popularized by Roblox YouTuber Faave.
Camper - a term used in Roblox FPS games, mostly Murder Mystery 2, It means when a player stays in one spot and waits for players/enemies to walk past him/her before attacking. DD - Dishonorably discharged. Mainly used in military roleplay games, it means that a player has been demoted or told to leave.
Typically only used in games that utilize command scripts but can also be used in games that give users any sort of power over others. AFK - Away from keyboard, similar to BRB. Used to show the player being away from the keyboard to do other short real-life actions.
1337 itself comes from the word elite. Users with elite status on BBSs had the widest access to the system and usually had to be the best hackers in order to achieve that level of access—hence 1337 as slang for “skilled,” in contrast to n00b, or newbie.
Elite was modified to leet, then written with numbers as 1337 (1 for L, 3 for E, and 7 for T ). 1337 really started spreading during the late 1980s and early 1990s, coinciding with the rise of the internet and popular computing.