Apparently Geek is Cool
May 31, 2008 | By Joel Dehlin | 6 Comments
When I was in high school, “Cool” guys played football, went to movies and had fast cars. “Nerds” were guys who went to debate tournaments, played dungeons & dragons and played with those new “computer” things.
I, of course, was a nerd.
After reading this article, I now realize that I morphed from a nerd into a geek.
Fun article.
A legitimate "geek" said...
Some of us, by the blindness of our parents, were given names and initials that when ordered a certain way, made us “geeks” for the rest of our lives…
I love being able to demand “geek” as a login name (if I’m not allowed to choose) and justify it by stating that it’s basically derived directly from my name.
May 31, 2008 11:51 am #
danithew said...
I did not realize that the word “nerd” was invented by Dr. Seuss.
That’s a very interesting article.
May 31, 2008 3:56 pm #
Scott Chester » Geek = Cool ? said...
[...] Thanks for sharing this Brother Dehlin. [...]
June 8, 2008 12:00 pm #
A. Yaksich said...
You might be an IT geek if you laugh at this:
There’s no place like 127.0.0.1
Hey, I found a self-help site that aided me in figuring out if I was a geek, nerd, or just normal.
http://www.nerdtests.com/index.php
June 8, 2008 1:20 pm #
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June 13, 2008 6:00 am #
KingM said...
My parents didn’t want me to play D&D. They thought it was associated with devil worship and had seen one too many firesides of the kind of guys who used to go on the circuit about rock music, D&D, etc.
I still found a way to play as often as I could and haven’t once made an offering to Beelzebub.
July 29, 2008 5:25 pm #