Gallery: World's Geekiest License Plates 2: Revenge of the Wired Readers
01steve-jobs
There are a lot of very geeky and very funny vanity license plates out there. More than we thought. More Geeky License Plates:[](http://stag-komodo.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/10/the-geekiest-license-plates-of-all-time/)[Geekiest License Plates of All Time (Wired's Picks)](http://stag-komodo.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/10/the-geekiest-license-plates-of-all-time/)[](http://stag-komodo.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/10/origins-of-geek-plates/)[Origins of the Geek License Plate](http://stag-komodo.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/10/origins-of-geek-plates/)Last week, we picked out the [geekiest license plates we could find](http://stag-komodo.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/10/the-geekiest-license-plates-of-all-time/), and we invited Wired readers to submit their own geek-plates. We got a lot -- too many to publish -- but here are a few of the very best ones, picked by us, but suggested by you. __Above__ Neight Barker spotted this one while on a business visit to Apple headquarters in Cupertino in January 2011. What Would Steve Jobs Do? *Photo: [Neight Barker](https://twitter.com/kneyght)*
02on-the-network
The bureaucratic fun-killers in Sacramento initially rejected this license plate as inappropriate, but Harry Saal fought back. After all, a network sniffer is a perfectly respectable security tool. "I wrote an indignant response to the DMV pointing out just how famous the term "SNIFFER" was (I think I included an article from *The New York Times*) and that they were the ones with the salacious mind, not me," he says. "To my huge surprise, they wrote back that they approved the license plate." *Photo: Harry Saal*
03gag-by-design
If you're a design perfectionist, you probably know that kerning is the process of snuggling letters together to make them look good to the reader. In short, what's needed most in this license plate. *Photo: [Flickr/Duncan Creamer](http://www.flickr.com/photos/creamaster/1003039048/)*
04binary
In Douglas Adams' classic 1978 radio show *The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy*, a computer called Deep Thought figures out the answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe, and everything. Turns out, it's 42. Putting "42" on your vanity license plate is cool. But putting it there in binary? That's priceless. The owner of this plate, Teh Treag, tells us that riding around with a binary answer to life's big questions is not without its complications. Once, he was stopped by a City of Lafayette police officer who was pretty much unable to correctly enter the plate number into his computer. Eventually, Treag had to walk the dispatcher through the plate number himself. His advice to other binary plate-owners in the great state of Louisiana? " If you prefix the plate number with a 'q', it all works as expected. " *Photo: Maris Mercier*
05bad-hacker
Few things say hacker quite as well as "BLK-HAT". *Photo: Damion Macpherson*
06bgp
It's a sad fact that there's simply not enough love out there for the Border Gateway Protocol, the routing protocol that keeps the internet humming along. That may be because most people only hear about BGP when it gets misconfigured and ends up knocking things like YouTube off the internet. But Cloudflare Engineer Terry Rodery is looking to set things right with this BGP-loving plate. *Photo: Robert McMillan/Wired*
07meme-gone-mad
It may be an obscure, [flash-in-the-pan internet meme to you,](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SiMHTK15Pik) but to Jared Ferreira, this is a pretty funny plate. *Photo: Jared Ferreira*
08networking
The Layer 4 networking reference is plenty geeky, but the "There's no place like [127.0.0.1](http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=127.0.0.1)" bumper sticker really makes this one. *Photo: Leslie Flora*
09representing-the-db
Obscure Oracle database errors, anyone? *Photo: Liz Atwood*
10not-the-price-of-this-car
When Kristine Hunt saw this flashy black Lotus on the highway, she had to grab a shot. "I just loved the irony of a Lotus with a null value," she says. *Photo: Kristine Hunt*
11family-unit
This one is clever: We figure it belongs to a family with a mom, a dad, and two boys. *Update: Reader Benjamin Phillips tells us the owners of this car actually had three sons and one daughter. "Mom and Dad got left out," he says. He should know. He was a frequent passenger back in elementary school.* *Photo: Mark Mathews*
