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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Maybe, as someone mentioned, it's not a coincidence that this coincides with the high school movement. Before that, the people who didn't like book-learning wouldn't go to school past childhood, so school was about book-learning (and moral instruction), not social adjustment.
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(obviously you can't get the science-fiction side of the nerd stereotype until science fiction is popular, so maybe 1930's and later).
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