Comments on: When Did Geeks Get Cool? https://techcitement.com/hardware/when-did-geeks-get-cool/ get excited Fri, 09 Jan 2015 21:21:48 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.2 By: Charlie M https://techcitement.com/hardware/when-did-geeks-get-cool/#comment-33398 Fri, 22 Feb 2013 22:13:00 +0000 http://techcitement.com/?p=7665#comment-33398 Geeks became cool to the public when they became famous billionaires.

]]> By: Adventures In The Realms Of Geek or Ich Bin Ein Nerdlander https://techcitement.com/hardware/when-did-geeks-get-cool/#comment-30418 Fri, 18 Jan 2013 20:19:29 +0000 http://techcitement.com/?p=7665#comment-30418 […] a year ago, Techcitement ran a similar piece about Geekery, called “When Did Geeks Get Cool?”, and It didn’t really give a cogent answer to the question, but I think I can: 1989. When Bill […]

]]> By: HV https://techcitement.com/hardware/when-did-geeks-get-cool/#comment-30099 Tue, 15 Jan 2013 17:05:00 +0000 http://techcitement.com/?p=7665#comment-30099 yeah geeks got popular not in anyway was the term just reinvented to include anyone..

]]> By: MBiggs https://techcitement.com/hardware/when-did-geeks-get-cool/#comment-2486 Sat, 04 Aug 2012 02:27:00 +0000 http://techcitement.com/?p=7665#comment-2486 When you started having to work for them!

]]> By: Omar T https://techcitement.com/hardware/when-did-geeks-get-cool/#comment-2485 Thu, 02 Aug 2012 19:31:00 +0000 http://techcitement.com/?p=7665#comment-2485 POWER – Cool mostly comes from power — “The Fonse” had power with the ladies back in those days.. The ‘Mobsters” in Chicago (Al Capone, etc) had businesses and financial power – but no morals so they were kind of cool but bad – bad for everyone but people still love The Godfather mafia movies. Then comes computers and internet and powerful, highly functional electronics like Video Game Consoles! Now someone that writes a program or makes a device can make something that is cool and fun or very powerful for your business environment and at the same time that person can become rich. Any time that someone can become RICH doing something they are sort of cool — EVEN IF IT IS MORALLY WRONG ( Mafia, Pirates – in the old days). OR Cool but still good – like gold prospectors, businessmen, inventors, movie producers/directors… etc..

So these guys are making awesome gadgets or FUN GAMES or powerful programs (Windows, Accounting Softwares, Encryption Softwares, Search Engine Algorithms, Online Business like ebay and Amazon.. etc) and these things are actually good and highly functional for society and get POWER.. so people will say its cool.

And will even get that guy LAID..! Maybe by one or two women, maybe more, but definitely I bet that whatever guy that invented and encryption software or a Cool Game can get at least a little bit of the p***y..! Maybe not get the guy Rock Star laid but definitely some…

And then there is the Wealth aspect — Wealth would get anyone laid — I mean it got Bill Gates laid and like the article says he is epitomy of Geek in the 80’s . If a guy makes a software or video game or whatever it is safe to say he is getting paid for it also so there you go…

When people are functional for society AND getting paid – then people will start to say they are ‘cool’ in that sense. Maybe not very ‘social-MTV style-cool’ like those little pansy a** annoying hipsters want to be but the other cool..

]]> By: facebook-711717333 https://techcitement.com/hardware/when-did-geeks-get-cool/#comment-2071 Tue, 10 Apr 2012 07:12:00 +0000 http://techcitement.com/?p=7665#comment-2071 We were always cool…you just didn’t notice :-D
 

]]> By: antigeek https://techcitement.com/hardware/when-did-geeks-get-cool/#comment-1975 Sun, 01 Apr 2012 11:43:00 +0000 http://techcitement.com/?p=7665#comment-1975 First I think your date referencing the use of the words: geek, dork and nerd are off, it’s way too late.Second, you haven’t determined the difference between being geeky/geek and how that differs in your chart. You’ve also based the assumption of geekiness on the usage and fondness
of technology which I believe is not  a nuanced understanding of the
term. Lastly, the fact that the self-styling of being a nerd or geek has reached a point of overkill, means that to be a geek or nerd is no longer cool since everyone claims to be one now.  The definition and population of geeks in society has now diluted the meaning, hence it is  meaningless, and definitely not cool.It parallels everyone having a tattoo – it’s not edgy, cool or ironic,
it’s just common, therefore dull, banal and irrelevant as social
commentary.

]]> By: Jeff Blanks https://techcitement.com/hardware/when-did-geeks-get-cool/#comment-1964 Sat, 31 Mar 2012 16:03:00 +0000 http://techcitement.com/?p=7665#comment-1964 “Geeks” (well, really, post-punk neo-beatnik hipsters playing the geek card”) have been cool ever since Elvis Costello–heck, maybe even Buddy Holly.  The secret is that what they really want to communicate is that they’re SO FUCKING COOL they can look like geeks and still be cool, not like those glam fag rock-star posers in their big hair and spandex or whatever.

]]> By: Jeff Blanks https://techcitement.com/hardware/when-did-geeks-get-cool/#comment-1965 Sat, 31 Mar 2012 16:03:00 +0000 http://techcitement.com/?p=7665#comment-1965 Oops–double-post removed.

]]> By: Mordechai Luchins https://techcitement.com/hardware/when-did-geeks-get-cool/#comment-1890 Fri, 30 Mar 2012 00:47:57 +0000 http://techcitement.com/?p=7665#comment-1890 In reply to O5577o.

Forrest Gump came out in ’94

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