when you catch yourself thinking you wish you could say a smiley - Female Nerd when you can remember your 10 favourite URLs but not your own zip code - Female Nerd when your homepage layout has won prizes but you can't read your own handwriting - Female Nerd when DOS was your favourite toy as a child - Female Nerd when your family e-mails you because that's the only way to get in touch with you - Female Nerd when your first thought isn't small and furry when you hear the word "mouse" - Female Nerd when you hear the little "ding" of the system chimes during your dreams - Hugues when you tell someone your name and end it with "dot com" - Ron when someone mentions java and coffee is the second thing that goes through your mind - Stephen when you wake up at night for some reason and think : "Great! I've got more time to get connected!" - Hugues when your friends at school ask you "what did you do on your weekend?" and you have to reply played on the computer, or try and make up a lie that you had a wonderful time out with your friends... - Alicia when you are asked "do you have a boyfriend?" and you have to answer: "Well, yes, I have a couple..one lives in Calgary, the other, Minnesota, the other New Zealand.." - Alicia when all you can muster up for a good conversation with your friends is "So what do you think about that ....page?" or "Have you seen my hpage recently?" - Alicia when the only sexual experiences you've made ended with a .com or a .org. - Jack07 when your fingers are stronger than your arms and your only tan originates from watching a monitor glow. - Jack07 when you hear a joke and start show your amusement by saying *rotflol* - Jack07 when asked to give your address, you don't think twice before rattling off your e-mail address instead of your postal address. - Tine when you suddenly need a calculator, and too lazy to go get your own, start looking for a JAVA calculator on the net. [And find it ! - Personal experience] - CeeJay when you flunk english at school by writing your exam paper in HTML. - Truls when you make a mistake putting on your makeup and immediately want to do a Ctrl-Z. (Undo) - Pam when your family offers to put a sleeping bag next to your computer. [It happened on one of my last three in a row all nighters *(Chatting & doing my page)*] - The NightScribe when all of your friends have @ in their names. - Jonathan Crowe when the TV stopped working a month ago and you didn't notice. - Jonathan Crowe when your dog has his own homepage. - Jonathan Crowe when you have a network in your spare bedroom. - Jonathan Crowe when you don't understand why the local 7-11 does not accept Cybercash. - Thomas Bruhn-Pedersen when all of your closest friends live out of state...or country, and you still talk to them every day. - Katja when you start a RL conv. and want to abbv. yr words. - Katja when you didn't know what your boy/girlfriend looked like until he/she sent you a pic. - Katja when you introduce yourself in RL using your online handle. - Katja when you consider changing your surname to Webber or Webster. - Kenneth when you get a tatoo on your shoulder reading <HTML> or a big @ sign. - Kenneth when you after 1 month find out your girlfriend is actually a big hairy guy with a tattoe on his chest - Celic when you can find the tilde (~) key without looking down. - BlackSlax when you miss out on your mothers birthday because "calendar 97" didn't run - Birger when you have a pyramid of coke cans in you computer room - Jeff Fouchard when you respond to "get a life!" with "what's the URL?" - Birger when you have a hotkey (crtl+alt+something) for every single networking program on your computer. - Jeff Daddy when you're daily to-do list looks like this: #include <sleep.h> int main() { get_up(); morning_pee(); for(int i=1; i==10) { snooze_bar(); } you_get_the_idea(); return 0; } - Cam when you leave a hotel early in the morning, and you walk up to the receptionist and say: "good morning, I would like to logout". - Tine when you give somebody your phonenumber in hexadecimal - Peter when you find yourself preferring the PC-version of 3M´s Post-It! notes. - Malte Thorup when you look at new computers like they were fast cars... (Oh man look at that: A pentum II 300MHZ with 128MB of ram... man that baby humms...) - Jeff Fouchard when you read microsurfs and want to be just like them - Jeff Fouchard when your wife emails you to say its suppertime and she is sitting in the same room (the spare bedroom with network (personal experience)) - Crazy Wolf when you in your worst nightmare wake up all sweaty, and scream: "I WAS KICKED OFF!!!" (belive it or not; It happened to me) - Shumway when you type up conversations with yourself and play them back with a text-to-speech system so you won't feel lonley. Not that *I've* ever done that... - Kelly Thomas Wood when people ask you your favourite colour and you answer "#fce503" - Aussie when you teach your kids to type before they can talk - Aussie when you're more fluent in Java than your native tongue - Aussie when you wake up to the sound of your alarm clock and thinks: - Oh, a bug in my HTML-code, I'll fix it with a SSI-include tomorrow - Hannes Tydén I thought nerds mean someone who's really smart and doesn't like fun or recess. - My name is Conni and I'm 12. when you sit down for an hour trying to think of a nerd joke! - Scoffer and Newt when one finger is much more toned than the rest of your body. - Priede when you wish that other people were equipped with a RS232-port in order to make social communication more fast and easy. - Pede when you ask your date if he/she is Year 2000 Compliant. - Michael R. Yeary when you start drooling while walking through a computer store. - Jakote when you send someone 12,567 e-mails because he beat you out by one dollar at that internet auction for the SCSI CD burner. - Jakote when you'd rather have more dots per inch than miles pr. gallon. - Johnny when you look down on people with low baud rates. - Johnny when you feel confident enough about your knowledge of technology to say "I don't know" to a question, instead of trying to make something up. - Johnny when someone you don't know calls an IDIOT a nerd and you stop to explain to them what a nerd REALLY is. - TurtleGeek when you spend your weekend looking through all the shareware programs on you're new CD-ROM - Unbeliever when you're start-up sound for Windows is a robotic female voice saying, "Allocating system resources... Windows initialized... Log-on procedure successful... Welcome to Windows 95, Unbeliever. Would you like me to make you some coffee ?" - Unbeliever when you're sleeping, then wake up to find one of your friends laughing at you. You then ask why, and they say that you were typing in your dreams and mumbling something about C++. - Alpineguy when the coke can pyramid gets so big that you decide to make it 3-dimensional. - Alpineguy when you at a party see this neanderthal bothering your friend, and tell your friend to do a /ignore - Mikkel Krog-Toft when you have your computer in you bedroom with ethernet w/ internet access across your headboard - Rusty Conover when your at high school typing a paper and you tell the computer to print the document to your printer at home. (yes I *have* done this) - Rusty Conover when you ask your teacher, "Can I have todays lecture in tarred GZip'ed format." And you actually get it in your email. - Rusty Conover when the worst punishment 'your mom can give you is "No going on the internet until you've done your chores!!" - Losiniecki 1001 110101 0010011 01101101 110110 110101101 010 01101 01101 11101 ? 0101101 011 01001 1100010 101 !!! - Joker when you actually tried to translate Joker's binary 'You know you're a nerd' entry.... and try to put it to ascii: {Tab}5{ctrl-S}m6«{reverse smiley}{enter}{enter}{ctrl-]} ? -{ctrl-C}9b{ctrl-E} !!! - Joshua Newman when you turn off your modem and get this awful empty feeling, like you just pulled the plug on a loved one. - Joker when tech support calls you for help. - Robert Bades when you greet someone on the street, you tip your head and smile 8-) - Robert Bades when you meet the mail man at the corner and you could swear he said, "You Got Mail!" - Robert Bades when you start writing children's stories that start out .... "C:\DOS\" "C:\DOS\RUN\" "RUN\DOS\RUN" - Robert Bades when you ask your girlfiend to call you on MS Netmeeting just so you can hear what she sounds like. - Robert Bades when passing the tests for the Navy Nuclear Program were easy but you're afraid you might not make it thru Basic Training(boot camp). - Francisco Martinez when you are asked about the the last movie you saw and you respond 'avi or quicktime?'. - Justin when you ask the clerk in the convenient store for microsoft popcorn, when you want microwave popcorn (I've done that!) - Klaus when you have the local software store on speed dial, but have to look up the number of your parents. - Fndrbndr when you go home for the holidays, you notice that your family upgraded their computer before you notice your new baby brother. - Fndrbndr when you have a personalized license plate made up for your car that has your internic handle (CS3227). - Christopher Schulte when everywhere you go, you could swear the Eudora e-mail notification sound keeps going off. - Christopher Schulte when you take apart the power supply to see why your computer won't turn on, later to realize it was unplugged. - Joshua Newman when your son spells his name, "J-O-R-D-A-N-ENTER" (A friend's Personal Experience). - Joshua Newman when your tombstone reads 'Connection terminated: System has stopped responding.' - Jess when you've got bigger problems making your dinner than your homepage !! - Jesus when you each morning when you've just woke, send an e-mail to your mom, saying you want breakfast. - Bo Kristensen when you tie up your parents phone line with your modem to send reasons why Captain Kirk is better than Captian Picard - TheVillageIdiot when you come late for school in the morning and you excuse is "sorry but I had 45 e-mails in my mailbox". - Stefanus Du Toit when you hear an oven timer buzzing at a friend's house and you say out loud "hmm, someone's dialing up the Internet!" (Personal Experience) - Lilepad when you have a list of ways you can tell if you are a nerd. - Jennifer when you want to end a conversation with someone by acting as if you were holding a mouse and clicking the close button in the top corner. - Marques when in the morning you go to your computer before you go to the bathroom. - Britney when you install the Matrix-quote "Welcome to the real world" as your shutdown system sound to remind you that there's a world outside your pc. - Zottl when you can type a 256 character password in 3.76 seconds flat. (personal experience) - Psycotic Farmer when you can type faster than your friends Random Access Modulator (RAM) - The Loonee When you have so much computer junk in your basement that your friends come to you before they go to the computer store! (This happens to me all the time!) - Erroll When your parent asks you what the weather outside is like, you fly to your computer, punch in http://wunderground.com/, your zip code, and finally answer: It's raining... - Ryoko When you give out your phone number with dots in it (like an IP), not dashes. 1.800.999.9999 - Kev' When your diary entries have the tags <ramblings> </ramblings> written in. - D00MCabbage When you enter the classroom, and you're disappointed because there are no {hugs} or *kisses* - F-ed When your friends call you between 7 in the evening and 09:00 in the morning, because that's the only time you're awake. - F-ed If you actually found this site and read through everyone of these comments. - Jamie If your mom asks you where you put the cookies and you say you deleted them. - Jamie When you can type 95 words per minute with two fingers. - MGP1243 When your first language is a programming language. - mage_man When the only sport you play is frisbee with AOL CDs. - KPU When your download your personality into your computer and it takes up one bit. - Treb God When you define a senior citizen as someone that programs in Integer Basic. - MGP1243 When your computer accepts voice commands in Hex - KPU When you ask the computer to calculate your life and it responds Error: Division by zero. Abort?, Retry?, Fail? - Kevin the Dren When your computer crashes and you are paralyzed from the neck down - KPU When you are multilingual and the only non-computer language you speak is Klignon - Treb God When you wish people were ODBC compliant. - KPU When you have a PIII 'intel inside' sticker on your toilet and you seriously consider putting some RAM into it.. and maybe an network cable... - icantfeelmylegs Thank you all for your contributions! |