geek out

[Gareth Branwyn]

Geek out is old hacker slang. It's in one of Raymond's early Jargon Files, I
believe. The usage there concerned doing something geeky in a non-geek
context, such as playing on someone's home computer during a party
(something I've certainly been guilty of).

-----Original Message-----
From: Peter Richardson <prichard at LINFIELD.EDU>
To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
Date: Monday, December 06, 1999 12:08 PM
Subject: geek out


>Have we seen "geek out?" Here's a recent note from our campus webmaster:
>
>My hope is to compile contact lists based on what people do for their web
>pages. This way I can group the web designers together and really geek out
>without irritating the rest of the college.
>
>Peter Richardson


Gareth Branwyn
Jargon Watch Editor
Wired