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.
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...
ReplyDeleteI 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.
I did not realize that the word "nerd" was invented by Dr. Seuss.
ReplyDeleteThat's a very interesting article.
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ReplyDeleteMy 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.
ReplyDeleteI still found a way to play as often as I could and haven't once made an offering to Beelzebub.