elite
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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