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What is ath1337?

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Matty_C
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So I sent off an SAE to NS and they kindly hit me with loads of stickers big and small. As well as several variation of "NS" and "newschoolers.com" I also got a couple of big ones that read "ath1337"...

Can anyone enlighten me as to what that is or what it means? I googled and found nothing and never heard of it on here...

Thanks :)

Dec 17 2007 7:33AM
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papasteeze
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athlete  or literally like that, Athleet
Dec 17 2007 7:37AM
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Bigwoods
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Haha they made those stickers! I've gots to get some.
Dec 17 2007 10:27AM
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miroz
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where?
Dec 17 2007 12:10PM
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Bigwoods
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https://www.newschoolers.com/web/content/pagetemplate/name/stickers/page/stickers/
Dec 17 2007 1:55PM
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Jwenz
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i have about 10 of those..epic
Dec 17 2007 3:02PM
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skiierman
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I need one because well... I'm a fucking @th1337
Dec 17 2007 5:33PM
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Goobie
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ya i got one of those too
Dec 17 2007 7:13PM
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Mr.Bishop
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the original gag with that sticker was to make it for our team.  

You see someone who is a really badass hacker on the internet would be known as Eliete.   They would shorten this to "leet" and spell it "1337" to be cool.

We wanted athletes for the nerdy internet site so:

ath1337 (athleet) was born.

:)


Dec 18 2007 8:57AM
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Matty_C
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oh i see. cool i guess/1

thank you again, and goodnight.
Dec 18 2007 8:34PM
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fouldsys
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i wasnt expecting a story such as this being behind a little sticker. interesting
Dec 18 2007 8:46PM
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Albino
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crazy. ive had that sticker on my helmet for a year, but had nfi what it meant. now i know.
Dec 18 2007 11:13PM
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tBenz
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ha, pretty clever idea
Dec 21 2007 12:01PM
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mellifluous
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Yeah
Dec 21 2007 7:29PM
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fourhundred
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ya I have them and they are spelled   ath1337
Dec 23 2007 10:33PM
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