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In the 20th century, trainspotters, radio hams, people who built toy model railways or had toy soldiers, science fiction fans, chess players come to mind. See a
by erehweb 2y ago
In the 20th century, trainspotters, radio hams, people who built toy model railways or had toy soldiers, science fiction fans, chess players come to mind. See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anorak_(slang) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anorak_(slang)
- warner25 2y agoSteven Levy's book, Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution, tells the story of how in the late 1950s the Tech Model Railroad Club at MIT morphed into a computer club around the TX-0 and produced a number of early influential computer scientists and engineers.