computer nerd

He spent more and more time online, on extreme websites and forums such as 4chan, and described himself at the time as a "neckbeard" - a slang term meaning, to put it politely, a basement-dwelling computer nerd who neglects personal grooming.

The Mesa County breach involved a former surfer who impersonated a computer “nerd” and made a FaceTime call during the operation, reporting by The New York Times shows.

When the two spoke over FaceTime, Mr. Byrne saw Mr. Hayes was dressed like a computer “nerd” and wearing someone else’s identification tag, Mr. Byrne said.

I was a computer nerd as a teenager and into my 20s.

Things just worked out really well for him, as they did for a local computer nerd named Bill Gates, and as they did for Tesla’s Elon Musk and the other quirky geniuses who have come up with clever ideas that have generated unimaginable fortunes.