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elite adj.
Clueful. Plugged-in. One of the
cognoscenti. Also used as a general positive adjective. This term
is not actually hacker slang in the strict sense; it is used
primarily by crackers and warez d00dz, for which reason
hackers use it only with heavy irony. The term used to
refer to the folks allowed in to the "hidden" or "privileged"
sections of BBSes in the early 1980s (which, typically, contained
pirated software). Frequently, early boards would only let you
post, or even see, a certain subset of the sections (or `boards')
on a BBS. Those who got to the frequently legendary `triple super
secret' boards were elite. Misspellings of this term in warez d00dz
style abound; the forms `eleet', and `31337' (among others)
have been sighted.
A true hacker would be more likely to use `wizardly'. Oppose
lamer.
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