Date : Sun, 11 Oct 2009 20:15:43 +0100
From : muzerakascooby@... (Muzer)
Subject: Electric Dreams last night.
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Rick Murray wrote:
> Muzer wrote:
>
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>> Version: 3.1
>
> There's a 3.12 y'know?
>
>
> The problem with The Geek Code is it is waaaaay out of date. Dilbert is
> immortal, but X-Files? Doom? C'mon!
>
> Also catch the references to VMS (say what?) and OS/2 (yowzers!) with no
> mention of actual modern cutting edge, like Ubuntu.
>
> Practically NO mention of a teched-up mobile phone. The closest we get is:
> "I am a WebMaster . Don't even think about trying to view my homepage
> without the latest version of Netscape. When I'm not on my normal net
> connection, I surf the web using my Newton and a cellular modem."
> which is almost comically funny.
>
> MSIE? Firefox? Opera-the-pretender? Hello!? I bet half the rugrats in
> the world uploading nonsense to YouTube don't even KNOW that Firefox was
> born of Netscape, and probably think Mozilla is a Japanese monster movie
> like Cloverfield but with really strange dialogue and subtitles...
>
> THE O.J TRIAL? How dated is THAT!?
>
>
> For what it is worth:
> --8<--------
> GAT d+ s: a C++>+++ !U P-- W++/+++ w++() PS+ PE t-- R* tv+(+++) b+>++
> DI++/++++ e* !r
> --8<--------
>
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Rick.
>
> PS: For those scratching their heads, try:
> http://www.joereiss.net/geek/ungeek.html
>
Apparently the minor version is irrelevant or something:
See the bottom of http://www.geekcode.com/geek.html
I really just put it there for fun, nobody really has mentioned it up
until now. Quite a few other people have it I've noticed from when I was
subscribed to various other mailing lists...
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