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