Source : Free On-Line Dictionary of Computing

computer geek
     
         (Or "turbo nerd", "turbo geek") One who eats
        (computer) {bugs} for a living.  One who fulfils all the
        dreariest negative stereotypes about {hackers}: an asocial,
        malodourous, pasty-faced monomaniac with all the personality
        of a cheese grater.  The term cannot be used by outsiders
        without implied insult to all {hackers}; compare
        black-on-black usage of "nigger".  A computer geek may be
        either a fundamentally clueless individual or a proto-hacker
        in {larval stage}.
     
        See also {Alpha Geek}, {propeller head}, {clustergeeking},
        {geek out}, {wannabee}, {terminal junkie}, {spod}, {weenie}.
     
        [{Jargon File}]
     
        (1997-06-26)