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...small handful of students will remember spending the evening in the Science Center computer lab, affectionately known as the "Nerd Cage," as they struggled to complete their computer science problem sets while simultaneously trying to keep tabs on the election...
...before his transformation into an administrator, Fineberg was a student, even a (self-described) nerd. He was a trumpet player, and a radio announcer, and awkward with girls...
BILL GATES High court rejects fast track for breakup. He might stay nerd in chief of a united Microsoft...
...Internet where he and his friends in Holland, Mich., could talk about stuff they liked: computers, the Linux programming language, science fiction--geek stuff. "There weren't any websites doing the subject matter I wanted," says Malda, who lives in Holland, and goes by the nom-de-nerd Commander Taco. "It all just kinda grew out of that very, very informally." By the time Slashdot was officially launched in 1997, the Net was hot, and geek culture was hip. Now, hyped only by word of mouth--no in-your face TV spots and no three-story billboards--Slashdot...
Right now Slashdot is still mainly for the digerati. The fare is a little more technical than your average nonhacker can handle. But the possibilities of Slashdot's collaborative-news model go way beyond the nerd world. One day the Internet may offer Slashdot-style sites for every niche kind of news. Want to try it? Malda gives away the software that runs Slashdot. Goodbye, Peter Jennings. Hail, Commander Taco...