Wearing Your Geek On Your Sleeve: Best Custom Geek License Plates Ever

Geekiest License Plates1 Wearing Your Geek On Your Sleeve: Best Custom Geek License Plates Ever
Photo: Phil Dokas/Flickr

No self respecting computer geek likes to leave his/her computer for too long, we all know that, unfortunately however, life dictates that we don’t always get what we want, so what better way to remain close to your device when you can’t be with it, than by getting a super-geeky license plate for your vehicle!

Wired.com has put together a collection of some of the geekiest license plates ever to travel our highways. Honestly a lot of them just look like normal number plates to me, a random jumble of letters and numbers but then I’m way more pop culture geek than I am computer geek.

HTTP 418, the license plate that Wired.com said was amongst “the geekiest license plate ever attached to the back of a car” belonged to Phil Dokas, but he had to wait about 6 months (after first posting a picture of it on the net) for someone to get the joke.

HTTP 418 is a type of internet error status but it is incredibly unlikely that you will see it appear on your web browser. Apparently it was put together as part of a 1998 April Fool’s joke by the fun-loving peeps at the Internet Engineering Task Force.

Wired.com said: “HTTP 418 is part of the “Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol standard.” It’s the error you get when you try to make coffee in a teapot over the internet. According to a draft of the standard: “Any attempt to brew coffee with a teapot should result in the error code ’418 I’m a teapot.’ The resulting entity body MAY be short and stout.””

HTTP 418 is just one of the many super-geek vanity plates pictures; you’ve got Alt-F4 – a favorite of trolls in internet chat rooms and online gaming, then there is FSCK – the popular Unix command and you’ve also got Linux Command plate RM-RF to help you eliminate tail-gators!

Check them out and leave a comment to let us know which your favorite is!

Geekiest License Plates2 Wearing Your Geek On Your Sleeve: Best Custom Geek License Plates Ever
Photo: Pete Tosacano/Flickr