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fuck_around/find_out (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev
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[–] 22 points 2 years 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.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years 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...

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