Actually that USED to be nerd cool. Then everybody started doing it, so the cool nerds stopped doing it... and started looking down on the masses who still used it.wh3n y0u wr1t3 l1k3 th15 b3cau53 y0u ar3 b0r3d
*Lynx proceeds to look down on wwjd_kilden.
I am of course kidding about looking down on you, but the uber nerds really do disparage it these days. When it was nerd-cool they called it leet speech. When everybody started doing it they called it AOL speech. Apparently it works to make them feel superior.