I have to admit I never identified with "Nerd".
I still don't.
It was a label applied by others which personally just never felt right.
I'm just "me". I like computers.
If you require a special label for that then fine.
Thanks to the dot com bubble and various entrepreneurs (Gates, Jobs, ...) the label has lost a lot of bad stigma. Now many people around me associate it with high earning potential.
Also, in german we don't have a term similar to "geek".
@upshotknothole I think the fact that we don't have words in #german for this shows the we are behind in this field
@steckerhalter germany is extremely behind anything related to IT.
We habe big ol' chemical and car industry.
Really the only real engineering happens in supplier of suppliers.
@upshotknothole I'm just me and I refuse to be constrained by labels.
@upshotknothole 'geek' and 'nerd' are actually quite different. A nerd is someone who knows a lot about a relatively narrow subject area; a 'geek' is someone who may or may not know something about any subject area, but won't stop talking excitedly about it. 😎
@dangoljames i did already hear the exact same words before.
Yet this post is about what words would I chose to describe myself.
"Geek" is not used in my native language (german) which means I would not use that.
Also, please have a look on this abstract boob representation (attached)
@upshotknothole At the risk of sounding patriarchal and misogynistic, I do like me some boobs 😎
The term "geek" is rarely to never used here in germany AFAIK.
geek===nerd here