Break out the Trapper Keepers and dust off that Atari joystick. It's time for a nostalgic trip straight into the geeky heart of the '80s, back when arcades, mixtapes, and computers ruled and shaped ...

It's safe to say that in the modern world, declaring that you're a nerd is one of the coolest things you can do. But it wasn't always this way. In the '80s, when use of the word became widespread for ...

The other night, I was watching the sometimes painfully bad 1998 horror film The Faculty. I remember really liking that movie in high school, and I’m not sure why. It’s basically a modern version of ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Nerds: high on the list of the most popular Halloween candies, low on the list of food items that ever needed to be made into cereals. Yet, ...

“I want a whole lot more than the boy next door I want hell on wheels” —from “Cool Rider” by Michelle Pfeiffer Nerds and badasses. Up until at least the early 1980s, you could witness these different ...

Nerd has been part of our lexicon for three-quarters of a century, its geeky meaning embodied by some of the most recognizable characters in film... Nerd! How the word popularized by Dr. Seuss went ...

It may conjure images of Family Matters' bespectacled, suspenders-clad Steve Urkel. Or the theoretical physicist Sheldon Cooper from The Big Bang Theory. Or Scooby-Doo's Velma. Or you may ...