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Posts Tagged ‘leetspeak’

IPv6 playtime: Hiding sentences inside addresses

We thought it was time for some fun of the geekier kind. If you know what IPv6 is, this should be something for you.

You may have seen IPv6 addresses that contain a couple of actual words. Here is a made-up example: babe:f432:42aa:8271:eee6:1076:dead:beef

Now what if we take this one step further, and construct entire sentences inside IPv6 addresses instead of just a few words? We decided to do just that, and here is how we did it.

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Versions of Google Search you never knew existed

Google Search has been localized to a lot of languages. And with a lot, we mean A LOT. Aside from languages like Swahili, Tamil, Twi, Scots Gaelic, Gujarati, Sesotho, Uighur and many more, Google Search has taken localization one step further by even including fictional languages:
Leetspeak

Google Search in Leetspeak.
Klingon

Google Search in Klingon.
Bork, bork, bork! (Swedish [...]

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