[quote name=\'Robair\' post=\'225728\' date=\'Sep 12 2009, 10:21 AM\'][quote name=\'Matt Ottinger\' post=\'225630\' date=\'Sep 10 2009, 11:05 PM\']I'm not sure why we adopted the weird spelling of 'fanboy', but we're using the term in its standard definition. Wikipedia says "highly devoted and biased in opinion towards a single subject", and that's pretty much it.[/quote]
l0bster, the cretin who singlehandedly destroyed Usenet, spelled it with a zero. Carried over nicely.
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He also mimicked others' names by using zeroes, a la "Matt 0ttinger", "Chris Lem0n", and "Zach H0ran".