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by codetrotter 2597 days ago
> it was essentially a sport to make your text as illegible as possible while still being able to understand each other

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God that took me five minutes to parse... but after you wrap your head around it, it’s not so bad.

I imagine it was easier to parse out in a monospaced terminal’s font?

It's so dumb we used to think of this as a form of securing our chat...

At least mum and dad couldn't read it.

"I sort of miss typing like this but at the[teh?] same time I don't miss it at all"