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[–] [email protected] 94 points 2 days ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 days 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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days 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...

[–] [email protected] 107 points 2 days ago (1 children)
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.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Kids today just don't know real code

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

Hell, kids today don't even number their lines anymore. What's wrong with the world?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

My 21 year old is pretty into rust and html. Does that count?

I'm pretty ignorant on most of it. In my youth, I just dabbled trying to lean basic on a c64 and AMOS on the Amiga though, so maybe not lol

e: I think I missed the joke, probably because I'm old lol