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What is leetspeak?
Leetspeak is text like this: | 10v3 Y0u. English translation: I love you. Leetspeak is also known as hakspeak and elite speak.

http://www.computerhope.com/jargon/l/leetspea.htm
Leetspeak has gone on for over a decade, starting in the late 1990s via many different online forms of discussion of what we now call bulletin boards and forums.

Sources: Wikipedia article on leetspeak, http://www.computerhope.com/jargon/l/leetspea.htm
--Ghost49424942 (talk) 23:22, 17 May 2013 (UTC)