Jargon

Does Anyone know what the following is??
|_33+ |-|@><0|~

or

|\|3><+ +1|\/|3 c|-|4|_|_3|\|9e |\/|3!

LEET HAXOR

or

NEXT TIME CHALLENGE ME !

have you been messing aroung with someone? lol

May have found these on his web site?

or a stupid friend is tryin to impress him

I had a friend ask me and others what the top one meant.
One of the others replied with the bottom one.
Is there a term for that type of 'jargon'?
How do I go about learning it??

Yeah, it's leet speak and no one takes it seriously. If you see it, discard it. :)

Quote:

---

Is there a term for that type of 'jargon'?
How do I go about learning it??

---

Yeah, it's called lamese and is a relatively new dialect in computer jargon. To learn, you actually have to lose IQ points to where you are in the mid-double digits. Then, forget touch-typing and just bang at the keyboard.

here you go : " The translator" for people who don't know how to write this...

http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/text/leet.php

hey, its a really nice thing...
thanks memory for telling about this...
its good to learn new things here..
are there any more tools like these??