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Originally posted by Fletch XXX
Thats a term Electronic Cowboys have used for years, Im not sure how it began to have anything to do with Adult Webmaster status... but originally it is hacker status brother... I Laugh when I see people use it in refernce to webmasters, since "hacker" has blown up so much since my friend <a href=http://kevinmitnick.com>Kevin Mitnick</a> he hosts a computer related security talk show on a AM current at 6 Am on Sunday if anyone is in my area and cares to listen in, THEn you may be 3L33t ;) Eleet is really for the h@c|<
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The first time I heard it used was in the 80's -- I was in 8th grade so that was around 1989 -- most of the "Elite" actitivity revolved around WAREZ and there were only a few "Elite" guys that were into Hacking/Phreaking and there were even fewer guys into credit cards or radio scanners and other "anarchy" stuff (and nobody used 3's or 7's then for "E" and "T" -- but high-ascii was definitely cool) -- most BBS's were public access back then but you still had to fill out all kinds of personal information (for callback verification in some cases to prove identity) -- but the "Elite" BBS's were very tight -- mostly run by young kids (this was south Florida) -- you had to really know someone on the inside first to become "Elite" enough to gain access to one of these BBS's where you could get to Warez and hang w/ the "krad" people hehe...
There were some guys that became elite doing VGA Loaders or ANSI art (promo for sites or crack groups) -- the real crackers where probably elite by default -- there was a lot of competition between crack groups -- to see who could crack shit first -- these were like elite gangs of kids basically -- a lot of times they would release shit before it even hit the shelves -- you could become elite also (probably the easiest way) being a distributer of warez (I forget the name of these guys) -- but all they had to do basically was spend a lot of money on long distance calls downloading all the newest warez from the main distribution sites -- and upload the shit to their local BBS's -- remember this was PRE internet so there was no central network and we are talking about only 9600 modems now as the max speed ;)
Maybe there was pre-Warez "elite" activity but I really doubt it -- I started out when 2400 modems were considered really fast and even back then there were some "cool" guys doing multi-node Galicticom boards -- but I don't think they did much other than some lame handscanner porn printed hehe... Those were PRE flatbed days haha...