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"Geek" nowadays means "has a Captain America Shield iPhone otterbox".

"Geek" now means a badge of honor to society.

"Geek" and/or "Nerd" were interchangable in the 80s meant someone that was despised by society.

Geek = cheerleader who owns a pair of glasses that she sometimes wears when she doesn't have any contacts available.

Or is that a nerd?

Geek.

Geez, I remember having my Geek Code in forum sigs, ircbots spitting them out on whois, etc.

I remember having it in a Usenet X-header...

Ah, memories. A lot has happened over the past several years that could be added to the code.

Having said that, GCS/MU d-- s-:++ a C+++$ UL+(+++) P+++ L++ E--- W+++ N++ w+ M++ PS+ PE++ Y+ PGP- !t X-- R++ tv-- b+ DI++++ D+ G+ e++ h---- r+++.

Remind me of http://www.innergeek.us/geek-test.html

45.75646% - Super Geek. Geez, that took a long time to complete...

Funny, I thought the geek code was "RTFM"

I would like to write my geek code. Is there a nice Q&A-tool for that?

You just read the page and write it out. That's all there is to it.

Check out the "Appearance" section http://www.geekcode.com/geek.html#appearance for a big helping of "only males can be geeks" assumption-making.

It reflected the state of things in 1996.

Actually, I was an undergraduate in 1993 (when this was first written) and I can assure you that there did exist women who did geeky stuff, were in STEM fields, etc. In fact, I did research for a professor then who was precisely such a woman. I don't want to overstate this, but little things like these add up to a perception that things were a way that wasn't really the case.

Despite this, I had my geek code proudly displayed on my website for years! :) (d- for appearance, although less so these days.)

Are you referring to the phrase, "clothes make the man" (which I've always taken to be relatively gender-neutral, since it's about how your presentation affects how others treat you / see you), or to the references to wearing pants/slacks?

Definitely the examples, not the phrase.

Check out the "Sex" section http://www.geekcode.com/geek.html#sex for a big helping of not making any gender assumptions

Good catch. Its interesting that the gender-neutrality comes only in the "Sex" and "Relationships" sections, and that the only female "I am <famous person>" comes in "Sex" for "I am Madonna."

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G+∴G-

Would be nice to update it into a more workable form for today.

Maybe key value pairs in json?

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