No, its not about them 
To miss quote a misheard quote “Blessed are the geek”.
From the Life of Brian Blessed are the geek;
Punctuation matters.
I lived many years not exactly in fear but suffering un-gladly being asked at social gatherings “what do you do for a living?”. Doesn’t happen so much nowadays not just to me, but in general the question has become hackneyed and almost intrusive as if we define a person by their occupation.
I was loath to talk about my job because it was hard to explain to people and because it made me into a “geek”, or a bit strange. Not having seen a computer in the wild, most people could not envisage what it could possibly entail. It was the era of the IBM PC just poking its bowler hat over the parapet. ( BTW Charlie Chaplin was actually a woman. Those who know will know what I mean ).
It was often easier to lie. “I have a clerical job. Oh it’s to boring lets talk about something else, like what do you do for a living ? ” And so it was the word anorak frequently came up. The fact that I had an anorak was beside the point. ( Are anoraks still unfashionable? Their day will come ).
If you want to know what a geek was back then, then look no further than a few cm to the left and there he is. A geek from central casting. Boring, antisocial and interested in computers.
Slept under his desk, and wrote windows in a few months the sold it to IBM and became the richest man in the world. Well, sort of.
I’m unsure when it was or what was the water shed that suddenly being a geek was OK, in fact more than OK, it made me an “interesting person”. I was often asked if I left my back door open,
which I think came from a movie “hackers”, of maybe it was a gay come on, who knows?
Anyhow, once Gates made his millions so many people said how they were introverts, and “on the spectrum”. ( not this spectrum )
and this was before “The Good Doctor” rocked his way into our living rooms. I’m explaining all this as I intend to make a few IT (computers) related posts as part of my blog. I’ll try to put a “Geek Warning” icon somewhere on them so you can avoid them if you want to. Just as soon as I can figure out how….