New blogpost: "Geek Code: a piece of web history"
Geek Code” was an interesting Internet novelty thing from 1993:
How to tell the world you are a geek, you ask? Use the universal Geek code! Using this special code will allow you to let other un-closeted geeks know who you are in a simple, codified statement.
https://neilzone.co.uk/2024/04/geek-code-a-piece-of-web-history/
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2024-04-22 09:03:59
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