I have noticed that about you people.
You have forgotten "
HAM Radio Operator" which in the late 1970's took
that first wild swerve into universal geekdom by presenting the TRASH 80 (build it yourself) computer soon supplanted by the Osborne
http://oldcomputers.net/osborne.html and Apple 2e. It is the holy grail of ancestral DNA for the building of motherboards and computing.
Geekish behavior can also be seen in the ultra suave behaviors of social stud downhill skiers. This was most prevalent in the late 70 into the 80's when again, it too, lapsed into universality. Here in 2009 it has all become whitewashed and milque toast. In 1979, we skiiers all ran out and bought pre-walkman tape players called Astraltunes. They were automotive cassette players in a plastic case with 13 pounds on NiCad batteries which you wore on your chest while skiing. It didn't seem Geekish at the time, but alas- this is the seductive lure of falling into the fly paper of social akwardness. You just don't see it happening~ what with the 45 minute run time between 3 hour recharges.
Where once we looked to the pages of Playboy
to know what was hep- this is where we first saw Lear 8 Track tape player units (Yes, they also built the first executive jet) for automotive use. This was one issue later from Miss January 1968 where they featured
a reel-to-reel tape recorder built into the backseat. I'll bet these new whiny engineered pneumatic Playboy girls (Next Door) wouldn't much care to have the imprint of that SONY on their perfectly formed tuches after what now passes for back seat intimacy. The Playmate of the Year for 1965 was barely wobbling out of Hef's round bed when they were featuring
record player turntables that "popped out" of the dash.
We knew what was cool back then, there was no doubt. Steve McQueen. He was so cool that they brought him back from the dead by using a cornfield, a (so called) Mustang (Should have been a GT40) and digital geekish manipulations. The rotting flesh didn't even show... all that much. Corvettes
used to be non-geek.
I kid you not.
If we all have become geeks, how can we see what is now universal?
I got my BPW, my titanium wetsuit, a VR3 computer... (and no one will ever see my folding snorkel!). I am cool.
Sometimes I wear my FENZI horse collar, amazing how all the kids believe it's the newest thing coming down the pipe. That and my Motorola Brick Phone which draws a lot of oohs and ahhs from hot chicks everywhere.
No geek, I.
