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fuck_around/find_out (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 1 day ago by sjmarf@sh.itjust.works to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[–] cobysev@lemmy.world 21 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

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

[–] rbos@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 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...