Now, it's mostly a nostalgic piece of history dating from the days of Bitnet and Listserv. But there was a time when you were nobody if you didn't have one of your own...a time when people were proud of their geekiness!
An example:
-----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK-----
Version: 3.1
GE/M/S/TW d@? s:(-) !a C(++++) UHC*(+++)@ P+ L E W>-- N(+) o K-- w(+++) O M V PS@ PE@ Y(++) PGP(++++) t 5 X R tv? b$ DI D G(+++) e(+++++) h(++)@>++ r$ z*$
------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------
In the days of slow access, you could tell someone a whole lot about yourself in a very concise way, by including your personal Geek Code as a signature.
Real geeks memorized every code, and could read them like regular text.
Who knows, it may enjoy a revival. The documentation is still around. There is a translator, and for lazy people, a generator.
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