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Today children, please open your Nerd Lifestyles Manual to chapter 7 on Leet Speak. This ancient language of the nerds was created in the 1980's for the purpose of... well... complicated nerd reasons like hacking and gaming and furthering one's lack of a social life.

At first glance, leet speak appears to have no greater purpose than making the English language ten times harder to read. I mean, really, do you know what I am saying here?

"W3 I1k3 b16 bIu3 5chI0n6 4nd my573r10u5 p00."

Although, I guess that statement generally goes without saying, for those of you who don't understand my message and are lacking the secret decoder ring, you can go to this website. Fear not, you will now be able to communicate on a superior nerd level:

THE NERD TRANSLATOR

After a little further research, the underlying purpose for leet speak made itself known. Of course it led back to what everything leads back to, our dear friend PORN! Should you one, find yourself in a chat room in the near future and two, have someone message you "A/S/L?", watch the hell out because you've taken a wrong turn into a minefield of lonely nerds.

Nerds are infamous porn experts and so in order to get their jollies, they had to devise a plan to get past content filters. By spelling porn with a leet spin or Pr0n, nerds can get nasty on the down low. I feel I can truly identify with this desire. Identify THIS:

B====D

Today, I bow to the genius of the nerd.