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---------------------------------------- nerds in time January 29th, 2019 ---------------------------------------- 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. HTML [0] Actually... TEXT [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?