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[–] 9point6 92 points 1 day 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] 103 points 1 day 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.

[–] EntirelyUnlovable 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Kids today just don't know real code

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

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

[–] cobysev 20 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 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.

[–] [email protected] 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...