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random question of the day: what were nerds doing before computers???

telephones/other electrical things

telegraphs before that. In fact, that's what Thomas Edison did in his teenage years (early 20s too iirc). He was a traveling telegraph operator, which was common for the "nerds" of the day.

I guess before that they were people like Franklin, who just messed around with random scientific things? Chemistry, Astronomy and the like?
 
I guess building and using radios, watching star trek, maybe telephone and telegraph experiments.
Probably they were more into mechanical stuff too.
I guess building a steam-powered cart in the '800 was stuff for motor nerds.
 
Before computers, they were busy inventing computers while watching Star Trek, playing D&D, and other cool nerdy shit.
 
1st it was Star Trek. Then D&D. Then home computers. Then the old internet (BBS and Gopher) then Magic. Now?
I guess MMO's, as opposed to wandering the internet randomly.

Also model rockets go in there someplace. I started with those in the late 80's. I have no idea when they were first popular.
 
No no no, us early early nerds were playing with our slide rules and calculating out the 69'th roots of 69. Believe it or not, you can get more than 3 significant figure accuracy on the log log scales. It beats carrying around heavy heavy books of 10 place logarithm tables.
 
in my pre-internet geek days, my friends and I would hang out in my parents basement watching tv, playing D&D or super nintendo, or hanging out at the local comic book shop.
 
hmmm, had lunch together & solved al-l-ll of the world's problems. Then ... tone, timber, & emotion was obvious & it didn't take as many words.
 
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