• cobysevEnglish
      16•25 days ago

      For some reason, this just sparked an ancient memory of the Geek Code, which was a sort of signature block you could append to your emails and online bios to show off how much of a geek you were in the geekiest fashion possible.

      Goddamn I’m old.

      • Rob BosEnglish
        3•25 days ago

        Remember it spawning a bunch of copycats? For a while every community had their own code block. I wrote one for a usenet group i was in at the time.

        alt.sysadmin and alt.sysadmin.recovery both had em iirc…