• @9point6
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    922 days ago

    And a decade or so ago it was LOLCODE that had me mildly concerned for the wellbeing of my peers.

    • Demigodrick
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      1032 days ago
      HAI 1.2
      CAN HAS STDIO?
      IM IN YR LOOP UPPIN YR VAR TIL BOTH SAEM VAR AN 10
          VISIBLE SUM OF VAR AN 1
      IM OUTTA YR LOOP
      KTHXBYE
      

      A perfectly reasonable language. None of this Gen Z rubbish.

      Something something better times. Shakes stick at sky.

    • cobysev
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      201 day 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.

      • @AnUnusualRelic
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        31 day ago

        Wow, hadn’t thought of that thing in ages. Now all we need is for B1FF to bring back ASCII sword signatures.

      • Rob Bos
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        31 day 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…