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Top 10 Nerdiest Things Of All Time list from a handful of people at Big Nerd Ranch
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Dwarf Fortress | Dwarf Fortress | Dwarf Fortress | Dwarf Fortress | Dwarf Fortress | Dwarf Fortress | Tabletop RPGs | Dwarf Fortress | Dwarf Fortress | Dwarf Fortress | |
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Pokemon | Star Wars | Ardiuno | Eclipse | Xcode | Android | Nerd Ranches | Bill Gates | Steve Balmer | Aaron Hillegass | |
Nethack | Dungeons and Dragons | MUDs | LARPing | Calculator watches | Comics | CCGs | MMORPGs | Lightning bolt! Lightning bolt! | There are only 10 types of people... | |
Nerdiest Things Of All Time Surverys | LARP | Dungeons and Dragons | Coding for Commodore 64 | Programming your own TI-82 Games | Cosplay | John Carmack | Steve Wosniak | Misfired High Five | Short sleeved plaid shirts | |
Magic | Astronomy | Mathematics | Physics | Science Fiction | Electronics | Computers | Programming | Philosophy | Woodworking | |
Singh's Mac OS X Internals book | Fountain pens | Molecular gastronomy | Indo-European poetics | Derridean post-structuralism | New Hacker's Dictionary / The Jargon File | Hacker's Delight | Napier's bones | Proust | Medieval alchemical manuscripts | |
LARPing | Whirlyball Bachelor Parties | FaerieCon | Reenactments | Code Golf | Pale Skin | Collections | Student Government | Competitive Mathematics | Scrabble | |
Big Nerd Ranch | text adventures | LARPing | calculator watches | programming TI Basic games on your calculator in the back of math class | Otaku | Dungeons and Dragons | Magic the Gathering | Burning Man Festival | modular synthesizers | |
Binary Code | Chess | Greggs Shorthand | brain surgery | x-rays | the science behind wastewater treatment | atari | moon boots | genetic code | Euler Formula | |
Star Trek | Star Wars | Computer Camp/Club | Science Fairs | Mathalon / Science Olympiad | Sci-Fi Movies (Matrix, Tron) | Comic Books | Video Games (Mario/Link) | Lord of the Rings | Chris Kelly | |
The celestial geometry of the pyramids. | The celestial geometry of Stonehenge | Godel | Escher | Bach | Godel, Escher, Bach, by Hofstadter | Weird Al Yankovic | How-to books | Ham Radio | Assembly language programming | |
Dungeons and Dragons | pocket protectors | calculators | khaki pants | side hair parts | bill gates | dragoncon | devo | star trek | spreadsheets | |
bass oboes | 8x10 view cameras | The Art of Salvador Dali | Social Anxiety | Fruit-scented dry-erase markers | Personal computers with front-panel switches | Chording keyboards | Hammurabi | Beatles #9 | Steve Sparks | |
male ponytails | silky dragon shirts | bacon flavored things | playing games on graphing calculators | RPGs | tucked in tshirts | velcro sneakers | alienware laptops | crew neck sweatshirts | stretched out socks | |
Deep curiosity | Scrabble | Puzzles | Wookies | Programming | Chess Club | NASA | Dr Who/Star Wars/StarTrek | Comic-con | Kleins Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the English Language | |
Fantasy Football | Dungeons and Dragons | Beards | Glasses | Suspenders | Chess | Programming | Skewing Survey Results by Providing Suggestions at the Top | Books | Videogames | |
Posting on video game forums | Dungeons and Dragons | LARPing | Anime | Star Trek | Comic books | Dr. Who | Model trains | Star Wars | Fantasy football | |
Toby Radloff | Nethack | BBSes | Using "-en" as a suffix in inappropriate contexts | Team Math | Obsessively browsing wikipedia | Knowing things you really don't need to know, ever, for any reason, and being able to recall them easily | Arguing on the internet | LARPing | Thinking too much | |
The Segway | The Clapper | Laser Tag | Mr Microphone | iPad | Pixar | Bill Gates | Laserdiscs | The Internet | Calculator watches | |
Battlestar Galactica | Daleks | Ender's Game | Dungeons and Dragons | Entropy | Coffee snobbery | Star Trek | Math problems for fun! | knee socks | Snow Crash | |
yugioh card shooter | pocket protectors | weird al | nintendo power glove | calculator watch | memorizing pi 20+ digits | specialty mountain dews at taco bell | solving a rubiks cube super fast | short pants | alfalfa's hair | |
weird al | pocket protectors | talking about programming at dinner | nethack | LARPing | Dungeons and Dragons | comic books | reading | programming | slide rules | |
rollerblades | helmet cams | PT Cruisers | spandex | pleated pants | Geocities websites | fanny packs | action figures | neon colors | bow ties | |
google glass | dragon*con | dungeons & dragons | star trek | doctor who | star wars | harry potter | knitting | fan fiction | comic book stores | |
writing your own compiler | Dungeons and Dragons | learning fake languages (LOTR elvish) | programming FPGA's for fun | solving the rubick's cube while also doing X | Star Trek | Antiques Roadshow hosts | ||||
Bicycles | Computers | Big Nerd Ranch | Reading | Learning | Curiosity | Magic: The Gathering | The Hobbit | Star Wars | Star Trek | |
Choose your own adventure books | speak and math toys | tinkertoys | space program | star wars movies | star trek show (original) | battlestar gallactica | Neil Gaiman | Terry Pratchett | cardigans | |
lord of the rings | pen testing (hackers) | star trek | star wars | science | fan fiction | video games | bitcoin | baseball stats junkies | bear grylis | |
Mid-chlorians | String Theory | Quantum Mechanics | Quarks | Carbonite | Dungeon Masters | 20-sided dice | The Black Lodge | The Death Star | Deoxyribonucleic acid | |
larp | golf | beer | coffee | computering | bsg | reading text books | my retainer | activity trackers | ||
periodic table of elements | famous scientists or early programmers: Tesla, Einstein, Ada Lovelace, Grace Hopper | If this is for conference room names, I really want Hopper and Lovelace. | Star Wars | superheroes (or villains) | Old-school video games: Mario, Frogger, Pong, Zelda | space |