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The '''Geek Code''', developed in 1993, is a series of letters and symbols used by self-described "[[geek]]s" to inform fellow geeks about their [[personality psychology|personality]], appearance, interests, skills, and opinions. The idea is that everything that makes a geek [[individual]] and different from all the other geeks in the world can be [[Code|encode]]d in this verya compact format which only other geeks can read. This is deemed to be [[Algorithmic efficiency|efficient]] in some sufficiently geeky manner.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Mgw7-M7t63MC |pages=10–20 |title=The cultures of computing |author=[[Susan Leigh Star]] |year=1995}}</ref>

It was once common practice to use a geek code as one's email or Usenet signature,<ref name="wapo">{{cite news |last1=Romenesko |first1=James |title=The Code of the Geeks |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1996/05/17/the-code-of-the-geeks/764cb760-d6f4-4ba2-860c-e1d1bcc69919/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.31fe75377dc0 |accessdate=14 November 2018 |work=Washinton Post |date=17 May 1996}}</ref> but the last official version of the code was produced in 1996,<ref name="geekcode"/> and it has now largely fallen out of use.