When I was a kid, nerds were bookish and into math and the arts and liked seeing how different ideas and disciplines worked together. Auto mechanic who's into 1

When I was a kid, nerds were bookish and into math and the arts and liked seeing how different ideas and disciplines worked together. Auto mechanic who's into 18th century literature and likes to explain how the cars are "just like" those books? That's a nerd. Geeks were more monomaniacal. There were Star Trek geeks (two opposing groups of them!), computer geeks (clustered around their chosen systems), gamer geeks, etc. Geeks did not accept the nerds. I wonder if part of the reason for that is that the geeks tended to be tribal and conflict-seeking and nerds were typically not "joiners" and tended to avoid conflict. I'm a bit offended by calling computer geeks "nerds" because it robs nerds of identity.