Geek culture is things like comic books, video games and Star Wars. Nerd culture is things like recreational mathematics, model trains, and editing Wikipedia.
I don’t like the term nerd, because when I was growing up it was a very hurtful epithet, but exactly this. There’s nothing inherently connecting liking math or computers, on the one hand, and super hero comics on the other. It was just an accident of history.
Exactly. A nerd is someone who implements emulators for extinct 70s minicomputers, or is deep into niche music. A "geek" (for lack of better word) is the target of this article.
Oddly I thought it was the exact opposite. Geeks are really into things that are considered uncool but are really useful, like computers and maths. Nerds are really into things that are uncool but not useful, like comics and video games. It's the latter that went mainstream because it's easy. Anyone can do it. But being a geek requires one to be a bit "special".
