THE GEEK CODE
For the past several weeks, The Geek Code's website, www.geekcode.com, has been off the air. This is due to the fact that I was laid off from my networking job in mid-July, thus losing my home T-1 line. Since that time I scrambled to get my own email address back up and operational on a friend's home DSL line and now at least have the basic Geek Code website back up and running.
First, if anyone is hiring or is aware of someone hiring a senior level network engineer with heavy duty networking, project management, team leadership, and UNIX administration skills, please drop me an email with relevant information at rhayden@geek.net. A copy of my online resume can be found in HTML at http://www.roberthayden.com/resume.html or in Word format at http://www.roberthayden.com/resume.doc. Currently I am located in the St. Louis area, I am however willing to relocate and am willing to work out-of-country. Thank you.
That said....
THE STATUS OF THE GEEK CODE:
The Geek Code is basicly a (small) part of Internet history. When I did the first incarnation of the code back in '93, it was as a lark. Eventually, it evolved into the form you see online now and has remained virtually unchanged since that time.
I've always meant to, and still hope to, someday get back to the code and release a new version for the new century that was more modern and hip and all that. Several things happened. First, the internet of 1996 was still a wild untamed virgin paradise of geeks and eggheads unpopulated by script kiddies, and the denizens of AOL. When things changed, I seriously lost my way. I mean, all the "geek" that was the Internet was gone and replaced by Xfiles buzzwords and politicians passing laws about a technology they refused to comprehend. Think about it, this was the infancy of even the world wide web, when having a "DotCom" address wasn't hip (and wasn't a billion-dollar snowjob by the ICANN).
Still, I always said to myself "Self, some day you'll get over it and write the new code."
AND SOME DAY I WILL!
However, until that time does arrive, The Geek Code stands as it does now, still in the pure and pristine form it was intended. A testament to the history of the Internet, however small a part it may have played.
Sincerely,
Robert Hayden
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