Oct 27, 2026

Yesterday, when I was browsing some homepages - when I was "surfing the web", like back when that was something real - someone had linked to a geek code generator. 

I remembered the geek code faintly, from encountering it many years ago when the web was young, and I was, too.

But I don't want to write about the geek code. 

I want to write about the Internet Oracle because the geek code mentioned it, and that was another thing I hadn't thought about it in a long time.

But around the year 1999 or 2000, when I discovered it, I thought it was the coolest thing ever. I asked questions and I wrote replies and one of my oracular replies even made it into a digest.

And yesterday, I thought: Many people who are asking ChatGPT or Claude or other LLMs for life advice would be better off to ask the Internet Oracle.

I am sure of it. It would make them happier.

But I think it's defunct nowadays.