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nerds in time | |
January 29th, 2019 | |
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Neckbeards. | |
Picture them. | |
Now stretch your mind out and encompass the skinny, unwashed | |
computer geek. Look yonder at the sea of goatees. Greasy hair, | |
ill-fitting t-shirts. Ahh, a modern knight walks by with his | |
sidearm-styled phone holter. | |
We can all recognize the stereotype from our own experiences. The | |
people of tech nerdom have a look. Of course it's not universal, | |
but the fact that you too can picture it so easily reveals some | |
truth there. | |
This post is not about stereotyping though. Take that rant | |
elsewhere. This post is about... well, time. | |
Think back 40 years and the nerds of today are still there. You | |
find them wearing slightly different things, but the connection is | |
clear. The goatee is a beard and the hair is longer. Or maybe it's | |
a button-up shirt with the top button fastened. | |
But what happens when we go back further? What happens 100 years | |
ago? What about 1000 years? | |
What form did this person take back then? Was there a medieval | |
sorcerer of "Well, Actually..."? [0] Perhaps the reason Cato [1] was | |
such a dick was that he was a good, old-fashioned, nerd. He knew | |
better than all the idiots around him. | |
[0] Actually... | |
[1] Cato the younger | |
This is the crap that keeps me up past midnight. | |
Who's got some other nerds from history to share? | |
Hic sunt neckbeardes? |