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Subject: Peter Caffin Category: People |
Peter Caffin lives in Perth, Western Australia, the most geographically isolated city in the world, and is usually employed in Linux network administration. On the Internet in 1995, Peter's interest in the goth subculture prompted him to write Goth Code, propose the aus.culture.gothic Usenet newsgroup and create its FAQ file. A hectic year.
With regard to what has been the highlight of writing and maintaining The Goth Code, Peter states: "it was fun and challenging bringing new life to an old genre. Goth.Code has successfully changed the fashion of signature codes from old x+++ a--- s- forms to new more logical condensed formats. Goth.Code 98 took the encryption to its extreme. It successfully incorporates a 6-bit binary scheme to condense even more information into fewer characters."
Peter's current project, relevant to the subculture, is the creation of gcd, a decoder created with the Open Source model and source code modularisation in mind. It is hoped that it will eventually decode all versions of Goth Code on all current hardware platforms.
See also: Goth.Code, Net.goth
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Date Added: 29-May-1999 Last Modified: 02-Dec-2004 |
