There were no nerds in the 1700s. There were no nerds in the 1800s. When did nerds as a distinct social category come about?
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muscular_Christianity … seems to have started a bit earlier but is culturally related
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Definitely the idea of someone who was too interested in school, too "bookish", and liable to be bullied or ostracized for this, was a thing by the late 19th and early 20th century. F. Scott Fitzgerald certainly takes it for granted that one doesn't want to be that.
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