{"id":6999,"date":"2011-01-04T03:47:00","date_gmt":"2011-01-04T03:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2011\/01\/04\/wake-up-geek-culture-time-to-die-in-this-great-2\/"},"modified":"2018-12-11T01:08:43","modified_gmt":"2018-12-11T01:08:43","slug":"wake-up-geek-culture-time-to-die-in-this-great-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2011\/01\/04\/wake-up-geek-culture-time-to-die-in-this-great-2\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-6999 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2011\/01\/04\/wake-up-geek-culture-time-to-die-in-this-great-2\/attachment\/7000\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/tumblr_lehbup54cZ1qzxaqho1_1280-1-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/tumblr_lehbup54cZ1qzxaqho1_1280-1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/tumblr_lehbup54cZ1qzxaqho1_1280-1-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, 100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/magazine\/2010\/12\/ff_angrynerd_geekculture\/all\/1\" target=\"_blank\">Wake Up, Geek Culture. Time to Die<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In this great <em>Wired<\/em> article by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pattonoswalt.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Patton Oswalt<\/a>, he laments that the Interwebs have made geek culture mainstream. \u00a0It&rsquo;s definitely worth the read&hellip;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The problem with the Internet, however, is that it lets anyone become otaku about anything\u00a0<em>instantly<\/em>. In the \u201980s, you couldn\u2019t get up to speed on an entire genre in a weekend. You had to wait, month to month, for the issues of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/watchmenmovie.warnerbros.com\/dvd\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Watchmen<\/a>\u00a0to come out. We couldn\u2019t BitTorrent the latest John Woo film or digitally download an entire decade\u2019s worth of grunge or hip hop. Hell, there were a few weeks during the spring of 1991 when we couldn\u2019t tell whether Nirvana or Tad would be the next band to break big. Imagine the terror!<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>[via <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.metafilter.com\/99007\/Twilight-of-the-Nerds\" target=\"_blank\">MetaFilter<\/a><\/em>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wake Up, Geek Culture. Time to Die In this great Wired article by Patton Oswalt, he laments that the Interwebs have made geek culture mainstream. \u00a0It&rsquo;s definitely worth the read&hellip; The problem with the Internet, however, is that it lets anyone become otaku about anything\u00a0instantly. In the \u201980s, you couldn\u2019t get up to speed on &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2011\/01\/04\/wake-up-geek-culture-time-to-die-in-this-great-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-uncategorized","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6999"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6999\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7001,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6999\/revisions\/7001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}