Fumbler's Café

I ran across this page on the Wayback Machine, from the old Sea of Waking Dreams website, now mostly defunct:

https://web.archive.org/web/19980430020 ... ecode.html

I guess this was an early version of what we now call emoticons, back when it was evidently really geeky to do this sort of thing.

So just for grins, if I understand this correctly, I can admit to being described somewhat thusly:

FuA/FuN/, a+++, C+, *p, b+++ (not Sarah, but Jethro Tull ) The "A" in the first group was not on the list, but denotes aviation.

So anyone can have a "secret handshake" with their own variations on this.

There's a lot of mostly young-adult lifestyle stuff in there, probably typical of her general audience in the Nineties.

Trying to remember even half of these codes would be impossible to me