• 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…