Geek Code: Difference between revisions

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:"While many geeks are highly successful at having relationships, a good many more are not. Give us the gritty details."

The Geek Code website contains the complete list of categories, along with all of the special syntax options.<ref>{{cite web|author=Robert Hayden |url=http://www.geekcode.com/ |title=geekcode.com |publisher=geekcode.com |date= |accessdate=March 12, 2013 |deadurlurl-status=yesdead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090228200740/http://www.geekcode.com/ |archivedate=February 28, 2009}}</ref> The choice of categories (from version 3 onward) reflects what geeks consider important. Categories include appearance, computers, computer-related politics, general politics, computer-related interests, other interests, and lifestyle and [[sexual intercourse|sex]].

===Category-specific modifiers===

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There have been several '"decoders" produced to transform a specific geek code into English, including:

* Pete Williams' Perl program ''ungeek.pl''.

* [[Bradley M. Kuhn]], in late 1998, made Williams' program available as a web service.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ebb.org/ungeek |title=The Geek Code Decoder Page |publisher=Ebb.org |date= |accessdate=March 12, 2013 |deadurlurl-status=yesdead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130301204113/http://www.ebb.org/ungeek/ |archivedate=March 1, 2013 |df=mdy }}</ref><ref>The site first appears in the Internet Archive on December 7, 1998 ({{cite web

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|title=Geek Code Decoder history at the WayBack machine

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|url = http://www.joereiss.net/geek

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