The origins of Geekspeak lie in a 1995 artist residency Pamela Z participated in at Xerox’s Palo Alto Research Center.
She became fascinated by the language and voices of some of the researchers she met there. At times it seemed as if practically no English was being spoken.
info here: http://www.yale.edu/yalemus/325a/content/exercises/listening/PamelaZ_GeekSpeak.htm