Floppies_only
Veteran Member
wait a minute... something doesn't add up here. you can't be a computer nerd and have conquests of women at the same time. especially a vintage computer nerd. computer nerds can definitely be into women, but they're too big of losers to actually have conquests.
aw.... no fun
We don't have to be computer nerds anymore. You see, back in the 1970's when you could make a decent living as a laborer, women were often attracted to buff construction workers. Their strength was a sign of vitality and thus attractive to lots of women. The out group was computer nerds: ninty-eight pound weaklings who spent so much time mastering technology that their social skills were neglected and undeveloped. They weren't attractive. I took a ton of shit in high school because people thought that I was very intelligent. But at least they didn't call me a nerd. As I remember, I was an honorary member of "the asian perseussion" - a group of intellectuals who were going places (my high school had a large asian-american population and damn were they smart). I was chief engineer of my high school's radio station, but I also d.j.ed and could tell which songs in our library sounded good.
But then the technology revolution came along and eventually, the signs of success included being tech-savvey. So, I think, without anybody really thinking about it, technical ability became sexy. The term "nerd" was replaced with "geek", meaning a person who knows a lot about something, named along with the word: computer geek, python (language) geek, biology geek, litigation geek.
In today's economy, women, who are programmed by evolution to select successful individuals, embraced technical ability as being sexy. When was the last time somebody complained to one of us that we were "too smart". It's been...decades for me.
We don't have to be nerds anymore. We can be socially aware, sophisticated, successful with the ladies, and, oh yes, we also like proving that we know how to make vintage computers work for us.
That's my take on it. Comments?
Sean