News: Mar 24/98:

Skeletals@aol.com notified me on Mar 19 about the new, machine-friendly GothCode'98. Despite having an awful fever and flu, it's done and it's been blessed. Go to GothdeCoder'98 for decrypting GC'98.

usual warnings, disclaimers, blah blah, let's make Peter happy since the gothcode was his idea.
Remember to make better page since people are actually USING this now.

Thank you for your GothCode, Peter.

GothdeCoder 3.x

Care to have a computer proofread your gothcode, or translate for you? Cut-and-paste it into here:

It will do parts of a GothCode as well (ie. just "SsNy h9(TNr)" if that's all you're interested in), and it understands codes 3.0 and 3.1. I'm gonna eat my words about codes 2.x requiring effort, since I compared today and 3.0 is almost a real superset of 2.5A.
If the GothCode you with to translate appears to be a long string of letters and numbers, not separated into comprehensible chunks, then you want to use the GothdeCoder'98.

(November 17/1997) Danny Barnhoorn informs me that he's written a Goth enCoder in javascript. I've yet to try it; for my excuses why, please give to the "Give Moses an Internet Connection" fund, and give generously.
(March 30/1998) Okay okay, I've seen it. Did I get anything for the "GMIC" fund? Not a sausage, nor any email. I had to go get employment, damnit!

If you want to make sure, Gothcode 3.0 and Gothcode 3.1 are availible at Peter T. Caffin's GothCode homepage. (local copies removed at Caffin's request)

Oh, and some samples follow. If you read the source for this document, you can see how you too can have a button that translates your GothCode on demand.

GoCs2$Au5$ TAnAdD7 PPeR B8/20Bk cR(GR)s2 V6s M3p3w ZGoExgClb C6om a22+ n4M b65 H165 g6L1094A mEa@S6$$ w5L v5R r7P p3Z565Me D66~!* h5{AnNr} sF9M SrNn k6mp N0296ONW HfmSp3 LusTX5

GoCS5$Au2 TSeFeZ ?PPeMoG B0/30Bk!"2 cLb(Lbr)-s2GM M3p1 ZTeiGoTeExCl C7o a23+ n7 b64 H178 g7L0595 m@Z4 w7T v3E r5BI}S{ p4ZZZZZz D67!~ h5(PeSh) sM7n SsNw k6BDspNW N0684JPLCOEH RflS LcaONT9


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Oh-my-goth. Where are the frames? Where's the javascript animating the form? Where's the embedded shockwave videogame, the MIDI music, the animated gifs, the caligraphic font... waitaminute, where's the damned pictures ?!

Ladies, gentlemen and those of indeterminate gender, welcome to a web page made so people could use it's contents, not to convince you that I'm cool. No ActiveX, no advertising banners, no damnable hostlists. Not even a link to my homepage -- you're intelligent, you can find me easily.

I'm on my soapbox because I want more people to publish matter instead of form. It occurs to me that people who will read this much text (instead of the equivalent 70x70 GIF decoration) already think that what the web has to say is more vital than how the web looks. Don't be a www-luddite; that just alienates people (as I may have), but please encourage web and 'zine authors to find their personal voice and SAY something instead of playing with pretty pictures, clipart or canned javascript.
- Moses Moore

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