Typographical error: Encyclopedia II - Typographical error - Intentional errors

Typographical error - Intentional errors

The emergence of Usenet and the World Wide Web as popular forms of mass-communication brought with it many people who are not skilled typists but have a lot to say. Typos are therefore common on Usenet and the Web, and some have found certain notoriety as in-jokes among Internet groups and subcultures.

Typographical error - teh best thign evar!!1!one!1!!

Users who are careless about their fast, emotional postings to web forums have sometimes brought on some sardonic ridicule with similar "errors" by others in follow-up or stereotypical postings. The ridicule is not usually directed solely at the original poster's typing ability, but also their impatience and carelessness to contribute a meaningful posting. This has included:

• The misspelling of the as teh, combined with poor grammar and similar misspellings.
• The sardonic ridicule of users being so excited that they have failed to hold down the shift key long enough to type a consistent series of exclamation marks (resulting in a string of characters like "!!!11"). Such ridicule is usually exacted by the replacement of '1' characters with literal 'one's in a similar string. e.g., "OMG that is sooo interesting!!!1!one!"

This typo is the result of releasing the shift key while the 1 key ("shift" + "1" produces "!" on a QWERTY keyboard) is still pressed down.

Despite syntactical similarities, this form of intentional mis-typing is not directly related to leetspeak. The intentional replacement of choice characters in leetspeak usually has the intention of obfuscation rather than ridicule. This form of mis-typing is most directly related to the fictional character (pseudo) B1FF from the early days of Usenet.

Typographical error - pwned

A well-known term in the Internet gaming sub-culture is pwned. A popular theory of its etymology is that the close proximity of the O and P keys on a QWERTY keyboard caused the accidental typing — and subsequent publishing — of pwned instead of owned (a declaration of domination over an opponent) in a popular multi-player video game.

Typographical error - Studnet

A common internet typo for student. Netizens who use the word, whether intentionally or not, may receive humorous replies referencing a fictitious network of studs, of which a "Studnet ID" is highly regarded.

Adapted from the Wikipedia article "Intentional errors", under the G.N U Free Docmentation License. Please also see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki