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I place this to the mid-90s at least, probably from Usenet. I adhered strictly to the rules, which were: - Begin signature with -- following be a space and car

I place this to the mid-90s at least, probably from Usenet. I adhered strictly to the rules, which were: - Begin signature with -- following be a space and carriage return - Have up to four lines of text following that - Figlet/ASCII art was allowed I don't recall what imagery I had, but a few different lines that I had for a long while were: - Of all the things I've lost, I miss my pants the most. - In the beginning was nothing, which exploded. - I beat the Internet. The last boss is really hard.

neilv 4y ago
In a Usenet sigs, it wasn't unusual to see a phone number, DoD number, or a statement that one is speaking only personally and not for their employer. More than one person had "ICBM coordinates" in their sig. It was a different time. One thing I'm glad has gone away is signatures that include a quote from someone famous (or net.famous), along with attribution. I'd skim a post, see the name of a person at the bottom, and associate that identity with that name, sometimes more than the name of the poster. At one point I was doing email and Usenet in Emacs, I wrote a feature to deemphasize sigs: https://www.neilvandyke.org/sigbegone/ https://www.neilvandyke.org/sigbegone/