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!
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