The Bear Code | Queer History
So I have gotten asked quite a few times what the string of characters labeled “bear code” is up on my mastodon profile. This was an old, old bit of gay internet arcarna from before sending a photo through the internet was terribly time consuming and costly thing. Painstakingly waiting for a single jpg to download line-by-line over copper telephone lines. The code was a shorthand way for people to describe themselves without images in small internet servers and chatrooms. The code’s creation is attributed to Bob Donahue (Bear code: B5 c+ f s-: w t- r k?) and Jeff […]Bear Community·bootblacks eye view
