Hvor ble det av nerdene?

[b-real]

Nerdene forsvant når MS-DOS døde.

 

Lenge leve dir, cls, mem osv.....

De har bare konvertert til Linux/Unix

[Irons]

hmm, tror jeg må kategorisere meg som nerd...

 

Leser utallige dataforum hver dag, jobber med data, data er hobby..

Ser nesten bare på scifi channel og discovery, elsker spørrespill

 

Når jeg kommer hjem så spiller jeg, koder litt, jobber litt osv...

Og, ja jeg har unix maskiner hjemme

 

Når jeg har tid til overs er jeg sammen med familien...

 

\\Sp33D

Som vet han burde prioritere familien, men alpha roper på meg, hun er lei seg.... (alpha er min main machine )

Endret 11. november 2004 av the_real_Sp33D

[Millmax]

Husker tilbake til ingeniørhøyskolen i 1996. DA var det nerder der da! Folk som satt på labben fra kl 16 - 06. Natt etter natt. Og en fyr pella fra hverandre et digitaltermometer, stakk ledningene inn i com porten og skrev en driver. Fikk opp tempen i rommet på skjermen. Hipp hurra! En annen raring spilte doom på oscilloscop. Kommentarer som "jeg kjøper meg mye heller en god programmeringsbok enn å dra på by'n" har jeg heller ikke hørt siden.

[faust_]

Det er ikke sånn lenger.. mine kjære medstudenter beskylder en for å være nerd bare en har moddet laptopsekken for å kunne fortsette musikklyttinga uten varmeproblemer eller kablingstrøbbel med laptopen (Har ikke 40-gb mp3spiller, og å bestemme seg mellom alle de gode låtene en har samlet seg er.. vanskelig..)...

 

 

Forresten, definisjonen av nerd:

 

nerd also nurd P Pronunciation Key (nûrd)

n. Slang

A foolish, inept, or unattractive person.

A person who is single-minded or accomplished in scientific or technical pursuits but is felt to be socially inept.

 

[Perhaps after Nerd, a character in If I Ran the Zoo, by Theodor Seuss Geisel.]

nerdy adj.

Word History: The word nerd, undefined but illustrated, first appeared in 1950 in Dr. Seuss's If I Ran the Zoo: “And then, just to show them, I'll sail to Ka-Troo And Bring Back an It-Kutch a Preep and a Proo A Nerkle a Nerd and a Seersucker, too!” (The nerd is a small humanoid creature looking comically angry, like a thin, cross Chester A. Arthur.) Nerd next appears, with a gloss, in the February 10, 1957, issue of the Glasgow, Scotland, Sunday Mail in a regular column entitled “ABC for SQUARES”: “Nerda square, any explanation needed?” Many of the terms defined in this “ABC” are unmistakable Americanisms, such as hep, ick, and jazzy, as is the gloss “square,” the current meaning of nerd. The third appearance of nerd in print is back in the United States in 1970 in Current Slang: “Nurd [sic], someone with objectionable habits or traits.... An uninteresting person, a ‘dud.’” Authorities disagree on whether the two nerdsDr. Seuss's small creature and the teenage slang term in the Glasgow Sunday Mailare the same word. Some experts claim there is no semantic connection and the identity of the words is fortuitous. Others maintain that Dr. Seuss is the true originator of nerd and that the word nerd (“comically unpleasant creature”) was picked up by the five- and six-year-olds of 1950 and passed on to their older siblings, who by 1957, as teenagers, had restricted and specified the meaning to the most comically obnoxious creature of their own class, a “square.”

 

 

 

 

I tillegg:

 

nerd

 

n. 1. [mainstream slang] Pejorative applied to anyone

with an above-average IQ and few gifts at small talk and ordinary

social rituals. 2. [jargon] Term of praise applied (in conscious

ironic reference to sense 1) to someone who knows what's really

important and interesting and doesn't care to be distracted by

trivial chatter and silly status games. Compare the two senses of

computer geek.

 

The word itself appears to derive from the lines "And then, just to

show them, I'll sail to Ka-Troo / And Bring Back an It-Kutch, a Preep

and a Proo, / A Nerkle, a Nerd, and a Seersucker, too!" in the

Dr. Seuss book "If I Ran the Zoo" (1950). (The spellings `nurd' and

`gnurd' also used to be current at MIT.) How it developed its

mainstream meaning is unclear, but sense 1 seems to have entered

mass culture in the early 1970s (there are reports that in the

mid-1960s it meant roughly "annoying misfit" without the connotation

of intelligence).

 

An IEEE Spectrum article (4/95, page 16) once derived `nerd' in its

variant form `knurd' from the word `drunk' backwards, but this

bears all the hallmarks of a bogus folk etymology.

 

Hackers developed sense 2 in self-defense perhaps ten years later,

and some actually wear "Nerd Pride" buttons, only half as a joke.

At MIT one can find not only buttons but (what else?) pocket

protectors bearing the slogan and the MIT seal.

 

(hentet fra Dictionary.com)

Endret 11. november 2004 av FauSt_

[tor_erik]

Jeg tok dem alle med meg hjem og har dem i koseskuffen under senga. 

Du glemte meg.

 

Nei, det er sant, jeg er jo ingen nerd.

Endret 11. november 2004 av tor_erik