Why 1337 sucks.: "A Consise History of 1337

In the beginning, there was USENET. USENET was great. But then a problem started happening. Hackers started using USENET to talk about hacking. Then, the moderators of some boards began filtering out words such as hack, hacker, hacking, etc. What were the hackers to do? They did what hackers always do. They beat the system.

Using words like h4x0r instead of hacker was a good idea back then, allowing hackers to get past silly restrictions on their newsgroups. What 1337 has become, however, in no way resembles its original purpose. This is because of a horrible phenomenon:"