Wear your geekiness on Geek Pride Day
Wednesday, May 26, 2010
May 25, 2010 is Geek Pride Day 2010. While in high school, you may not have felt all that proud if you were labeled a geek, any trip to a high school reunion might have shown you otherwise.
Geek Pride Day has been unofficially celebrated on May 25 since 2006. For those with long memories, May 25, 1977 was the premiere of "Star Wars," later renumbered chapter IV and renamed "A New Hope," in 1977.
Shoebuy.com Free Shipping and Free ReturnsThe idea first began in a bar in Albany, NY. Tim McEachern organized events called the Geek Pride Festival and / or Geek Pride Day from 1998 to 2000. However, in 2006, this day was celebrated for the first time all over Spain and on the Internet.
It wasn't until 2008 that Geek Pride Day crossed the Atlantic and hit America. In 2009, Geek Pride Day reached the Science Channel, where special programming was aired on May 25 to celebrate.
Why should nerds and geeks be proud on this day? One look at Steve Wozniak or Bill Gates, obvious geeks, and their success should be enough. For those who might have gone to their high school reunions, as mentioned above, and seen the down-and-out high school QB, balding and not doing so well, that's another example.
At any rate, today is Geek Pride Day. Buy a geek a cup of coffee, as they survive on caffeine.