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As a kid, I always assumed that it was "description" but in some other language which I was unfamiliar with.
by fullstop 2y ago
As a kid, I always assumed that it was "description" but in some other language which I was unfamiliar with.
- spitfire 2y agoLeetspeak. As a kid, you should have known leetspeak.
- bytearray 2y agoUm, I think you mean 1337
- Scotrix 2y agonot to be mistaken with 31337 ;-)
- 31337Logic 2y agoOh, hi there! ;^)
- dylan604 2y agoYes, but which color book was this term first used? Then we'll establish how l337 you are or are not
- fragmede 2y agohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4U9MI0u2VIE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4U9MI0u2VIE https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/10997/were-any-of-the-books-mentioned-in-this-scene-from-the-movie-hackers-real https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/10997/wer... great scene.
- herodoturtle 2y agoI’m the biggest fan of Hackers but that scene has always irked me. They’re all so impressed with Dade’s knowledge yet he simply appears to be reading the cover title of each book as it gets passed. Someone please give me a meta explanation that justifies this so that my inner fanboy can sleep better at night. I’ve probably watched Hackers 100s of times. Best love story ever.
- doublerabbit 2y agoThe nicknames given to each book is what he's being tested on. "The dragoon book", "That ugly red book that wont sit on the shelf" and so on.
- fragmede 2y agophysical books weren't just given away to anyone who asked back then, so getting a copy of one is an achievement in the first place so the assumption is if you got it, you read it and by reading the title out loud he's saying I know what's in those books, like the anarchist cookbook
- xtracto 2y agoI think .diz preceeded leetspeak by a couple of years.
- euroderf 2y agoFWIW, leetspeak is just a calligraphic flourish away from feetspeak.
- lloeki 2y agoI assumed it was short for "distribution", stylised.
- ahartmetz 2y agoI thought it was leetspeak for "this", so FILE_ID.DIZ was "file to identify this"