CNN.com gets pwned!1

[Nied]

Kids online use a creative code

This has got to be the most un-intentionally funny thing I've read in years. What a bunch of n00bs.

[EXO]

ZOMG!!!11!!! groundbreaking news!

Edited April 27, 2005 by >EXO<

[Flaming Guantlet]

"This just in. CNN finally discovers leetspeek. Rest of world laughs at CNN."

[Dangaioh]

Gees, it took CNN to call in a radio personality to do one of their commentaries... I actually listen to her radio show now that Call for Help and Screensaver is not on anymore... hell now that TechTV is trully gone.

But, check this out: http://www.jayssite.com/stuff/l33t/l33t_translator.html

[Commander McBride]

MSN had a similar article a while back, it was absolutely hilarious. They were talking about online gaming, and warning parents about "griefers", roving bands of bad players who go around creating havoc in servers. Of course, anyone who really plays online games knows that Smacktards are very rarely organized to such a degree...

[Mr March]

It's really funny when the rest of the world clues into internet culture that we take for granted. Gawd, I feel like everyone is a decade behind when I see this stuff.

[Prime]

It's really funny when the rest of the world clues into internet culture that we take for granted. Gawd, I feel like everyone is a decade behind when I see this stuff.

Definitely. Next they will discover that porn is transfered over the Internet.

[Dangard Ace]

Definitely. Next they will discover that porn is transfered over the Internet.

NO! What the hell am I doing here?!

[Mechamaniac]

PH34R 0UR L33T N3KKID SKILLZ!!

Edited April 27, 2005 by Mechamaniac

[Dat Pinche Haro!]

0/\/\FG @1/\/T 3\/3/V \/\/0RTH TEH R3@D

[1/1 LowViz Lurker]

OMG parents beware! Your kids are computer hackers trying to steal your credit card details! They've been encrypting thier messages all along. What will we do?

Alarmed parent:

"Lets start a campaign to ban the internet. It ruins thier spelling, makes them into cyber criminals, perverts thier innocent minds, and there is no control."

Welcome to last decade. By the time the parents have discovered thier kids secret, the kids are now adults and are still using the hackerspeak. Given how long it took for them to figure this out, it shows how little attention parents pay to thier kids.

Edited April 27, 2005 by 1/1 LowViz Lurker

[peter]

It's like when they first discovered Ebonics.

[Pat Payne]

I remember people were using Hacker Cyrillic when I was in high school...and that's closing in on ten years ago now!

[Jemstone]

That is funny and also very sad. I had to check the article's date to make sure. Makes me wonder what kind of people they have working at CNN to just be getting this..... What's the next article on.... the use of slang?

[Blaine23]

It just reminds me of the Newsradio where Phil Hartman tried to learn ebonics and was instead given words of nonsense by his assistant.

"Gazizza, my brothers! Rocket Fuel... damn."

[JKeats]

It's pretty sad to think about that "journalists" like that are so out of touch with society.

[Mechamaniac]

It just reminds me of the Newsradio where Phil Hartman tried to learn ebonics and was instead given words of nonsense by his assistant.

"Gazizza, my brothers!  Rocket Fuel... damn."

That reminds me of the episode of Frasier where he gave his son's Bar Mitzvah speech in Klingon..

Edited April 27, 2005 by Mechamaniac

[Agent ONE]

0\/\/n3d or pwn3d = an assertion of superiority = what Agent ONE does to M7 fans

I caught something they left out.

[That NOS Guy]

OMG CNN 15 14gg13rs!1!11

-NOS

I can't believe no one made this joke already.

[do not disturb]

it make me wonder if they know what blogs are.

[Father Jack]

If you're a parent, pay attention to the following list. These words can point to illegal activities or indicate your child is a bully:

Curses now my parents will know all about the warez i've been trading for pron

[ogami]

haha... nice article for the soccer moms... orz

[NERV]

wtf, i have never even heard of 'griefers' it's always been PKs/PKers (player killers)

[promethuem5]

CNN Climbs out from under the rock ladies and gentlemen....

EDIT: The sad thing is that I'm such a non-mainstrema 16 year old that I'm learning stuff by reading it

Edited April 27, 2005 by promethuem5

[BoBe-Patt]

ahhh, I remember using this back in the days when pagers were in and the only way to communicate in high school.

[Godzilla]

It's like when they first discovered Ebonics.

[Sephiroth]

/_4(v)3

Edited April 27, 2005 by Sephiroth

[Kin]

she needs to be spanked!

ffs!

Edited April 27, 2005 by Kin