elite

1. adj. Clueful. Plugged-in. One of the cognoscenti. Also used as a general
positive adjective. This term is not actually native hacker slang; it is
used primarily by crackers and warez d00dz , for which reason hackers use it
only with heavy irony. The term used to refer to the folks allowed in to the
hidden or privileged sections of BBSes in the early 1980s (which, typically,
contained pirated software). Frequently, early boards would only let you
post, or even see, a certain subset of the sections (or boards ) on a BBS.
Those who got to the frequently legendary triple super secret boards were
elite. Misspellings of this term in warez d00dz style abound; the forms l337
eleet , and 31337 (among others) have been sighted. A true hacker would be
more likely to use wizardly. Oppose lamer.
2. BBC Micro space trading game from the early 1980s which was one of the
early pioneers of 3D graphics.
