elite => leet, l33t, 133t, and finally, 1337
hackers => h4xx0rz
After acronyms became popular, shorthanders eventually derived a “different” way to type, using Z’s instead of S’s, X’s instead of CKS’s, and numbers instead of letters, like when calling someone a “noob,”(a newbie), someone would say, “hay n00b,” using two zeros instead of O’s, and an ‘a’ instead of an ‘e’