A long-running joke among computer tech
support people describes egregiously basic user errors with the code ID10T, because when written out rather than spoken the characters resemble the word “IDIOT.” The
Internet-based practice of replacing letters with similarly-shaped numbers and
other ASCII symbols became known as LEET or 1337. See page 130, where Destiny
Jones says “It’s all L33T to me.”
An example of a snarky ID10T error by evadrekrab. Original image from Photobucket (be advised the linked site has pop-ups; but there you can buy prints of this image if you're so inclined.)
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In The Billionth Monkey,
I parsed the code as "ID 10-T" so that it would naturally be read the
way one would say it; and also because ID10T would be too obvious to
readers in today's Internet age of tweets and text messages.
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