May 25th is definitely a celebration of geek culture worldwide. Learn more about the date and meet the most emblematic geeks in history
Today day may 25th, you can be sure that many people will celebrate the Geek Pride Day. This date celebrates anyone’s right to be a geek (or a nerd), and promotes geek culture around the world. The date was chosen to commemorate the day of the launch of the Episode IV: A New Hope, the first film in the saga Star Wars, a classic of geek culture, released on May 25, 1977.
THE Nerd Pride Festival, which took place between 1998 and 2000 in New York City, was the beginning of the celebration of this date. In 2006, the first official celebration of the date took place in Spain and on the internet, when 300 geeks made a PAC MAN in Madrid. In that same event, an unpretentious manifesto was made about the rights and responsibilities of the geek community, giving indications that the Geek Pride was gaining more and more strength.
Towel Day is a day in celebration of the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy series of books
The beginning of everything: Scientists and Creators
Alan Turing
Alan Turing is considered the father of computing and one of the most important geeks in the history of technology
bill Gates
Bil Gates is the creator of Windows and one of the most influential geeks today
Steve Wozniak
Steve Wozniak is a geek and also one of the founders of Apple
Mark Zuckerberg
Mark Zuckerberg is one of the most influential geeks in business today and is the creator of Facebook
The most pop geeks
Elon Musk
Elon Musk, best known for Tesla and Neuralink is one of the most media geeks today
Shawn Fanning
Shawn Fanning is a geek and creator of Napster
Stan Lee
Stan Lee is the creator of Marvel, gave life to characters like Spiderman and Wolverine
Wachowski sisters
Sisters Lilly and Lana Wachowski are geeks of the most enthusiastic in the industry and are behind films like Matrix and Speed ​​Racer
Shigeru Miyamoto
Shigeru Miyamoto is creator of Mario and The Legend of Zelda
Geek Pride Day and fiction geeks
Hermione Granger (Harry Potter)
Hermione Granger is one of the protagonists of the Harry Potter franchise and the geek witch of cinema
Velma Dinkley (Scooby Doo)
Velma is one of Scooby Doo’s main characters, and one of the most iconic geeks in popular culture
Spock (Star Trek)
Spock is one of the most famous characters in Star Trek and one of the ultimate symbols of the geek world
Doc. Brown (Back to the Future)
Doctor Emmet Brown is a scientist and one of the main characters in the Back to the Future trilogy
Truth be told, the duo Marty McFly and Doc. Brown it is unbeatable. But we need to recognize that the creator of the time machine (a DeLorean highly modified) is the real geek. Technology enthusiast, Doc. Brown he would do anything for science, including putting his life at risk for it.
Amy Farrah Fowler (The Big Bang Theory)
Both Amy and Mayim, the actress who plays her are geeks
Gary and Wyatt (Woman Note 1000)
Gary and Wyatt are geeks and also protagonists of Woman Note 1000Egon Spengler (Ghostbusters)
Egon Spengler is definitely the geek in the Ghostbusters group
Lisa Simpson (The Simpsons)
Lisa Simpson is the greatest geek example in The Simpsons series
Will Byers (Stranger Things)
Will Byers is the greatest geek among the protagonists of the series Stranger ThingsFranjinha (Monica’s Gang)
Franjinha is one of the characters of Turma da MĂ´nica and the most geek among them
The forgotten geeks
Seth Green
Seth Green is an actor and also creator of Robot Chicken
Henry Cavill is Superman in theaters and is also an avid fan of games
Henry Cavill
Yes, we know who it is Henry Cavill. Impossible not to know the actor who gives life to anyone else, none other than Superman at the movies. What many may not know, however, is that Cavill is a true geek. So much so that he lost the important connection confirming that the protagonist of The Witcher, being a fan, because he was busy playing World of Warcraft.
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