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