Continued Existence
In the sense of caricaturing the prototypical pre-adolescent or over-self-confident noob on the Internet, BIFF's legacy lives on, in practice if not in name.
Beyond apparently inspiring the naming and style of the precursor to leet, BIFFisms continue to be seen today in many Internet forums and comment threads, both in direct posts and in deliberate ironic imitation. Every Internet user who has used leetspeek ironically ("the ph34r!") or mocked pre-teen gamers or IRCers ("OMG WTF!!!1eleven11 kthxbye") is essentially using a modernised BIFF. BIFF, like Eliza Doolittle, appears to be a specifically created yet immediately classic shibboleth of some fundamental human behaviour, on the part of both the parodied and the parodying.
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