Nerds: Revenge of the Stereotypes…

Before I get into the meat of this post, I want everyone to go take a read of this wikipedia entry for the term “Nerd.” To most people, the terms ”Nerd,” ”Dork” and “Geek” are interchangable… but the terms are actually quite different. Check out this article about How to Tell the Difference between Nerds and Geeks. I point these out so that everyone has a clear reference toward what I’m going to be posting about.

While I’m not going to get into all the things I’ve done in my life that give me some type of “nerd street cred”.. I’ll just say that I’ve been playing around with computers since I got my first Commodore Vic-20 back in 1982, ran my own bulliten board system and played AD&D throughout high school, and have been gainfully employed in the “Internet Industry” for the past 10 years. I’d like to think I’m not quite as bad as most nerd/geek/dork stereotypes, but I certainly have a few characteristics that would get me labelled as such.

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