[rufibarbatus]

I agree with most of what you said. My edit to the comment obscured its main point, which was: the expression "true geek" has shifted away from its previous meaning (again).

My point being: we were geek before it was cool.

(Come to think of it, that might not be totally acurate either. The "proud geek" generations of the 80s and 90s, though slightly marginal to mainstream culture, at least were proud to wear the moniker. Before that there were the labeled geek generations, to whom the word was indeed a very uncool slur. Maybe I'm closer to the Seth Cohen generation than I'd care to admit.)