…..the other day WordPress notified me of a milestone
When I started this blog three and a half years ago I had no idea that I would still be blogging this far down the road, never mind posting 1337 articles.
Congratulations on writing 1337 posts on Mama Cormier!
My question, however, has to do with the number 1337. Why is that number a milestone in the blogging world or at least at WordPress? When I think of milestone numbers, 500, 1000 and 10 000 come to mind. Am I thinking in metric terms? Is 1337 an important number in the Imperial system?
What am I missing? If anyone can help me I’d be most appreciative. In the meantime I’ll celebrate this recognition doled out by those wiser than me at WordPress.
Upon doing further research I did find in Urban Dictionary that 1337 means ‘elite’. Is this the answer?
Mama Cormier 
no clue – lol – but congrats on your successful endeavor!
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Thanks Jodi. I do think that the number is related to some computer geek language.
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I too am very curious about this odd milestone number. If you find the answer, I hope you’ll share it.
… and that’s a lot of posts! Congrats 🙂
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The link under Urban Dictionary is probably the best answer I could find.
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The Imperial link would sound most likely except WordPress is American, always highlighting European spelling as incorrect, as in colour, flavour, etcetera. Hey, it just highlighted etcetera as wrong, but not etc. Just goes to show you! I’m clueless and rambling. Congrats. That’s a heck of a lot of posts!!
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The U.S. system is based on the Imperial system. There are a few differences but yards, feet and inches are the same in Britain and the U.S.. You’re right about the spelling of common words. In Canada our spelling is the same as the U.K.. The one exception that I can think of is ‘gaol’ and jail.
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I found this :
It uses various combinations of ASCII characters to replace Latinate letters. For example, leet spellings of the word leet include 1337 and l33t; eleet may be spelled 31337 or 3l33t. The term leet is derived from the word elite. The leet alphabet is a specialized form of symbolic writing.
It is probably the same as the Urban Dictionary.
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Thanks Paul. I read a similar explanation but found it a little too onerous to write about. It’s all ‘Greek’ to me. Haha!
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