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Commemorative day
Geek Pride Day
is an initiative to promote
geek
culture, celebrated annually on May 25.
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The initiative originated in Spain in 2006 as (
Spanish
:
Dia del orgullo friki
) and spread around the world via the
Internet
.
Origins
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Tim McEachern organized unconnected events called
Geek Pride Festival
and/or Geek Pride Day 1998 to 2000 at a bar in
Albany, New York
, which are sometimes seen as a prelude to Geek Pride Day.
[
citation needed
]
Dick Morley
, a "father" of the
programmable logic controller
, organised Geek Pride Days at The Barn, his retreat in
New Hampshire
, as early as 2001. He describes it in his book,
Techshock ? Future under repair
(ISA, 2009). He held them on the longest day of the year and he wrote of
Geek Pride Day (Or Outing Engineers in the Bush!)
on page 19.
In 2006, the Spanish
blogger
German Martinez known online as
senor Buebo
organized the first celebration. The day was celebrated for the first time in Spain and on the
Internet
, drawing attention from mainstream media.
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The biggest concentration took place in
Madrid
, where 300 geeks demonstrated their pride together with a human
Pac-Man
. A manifesto was created to celebrate the first Geek Pride Day, which included a list of the basic rights and responsibilities of geeks.
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2008
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In 2008, Geek Pride Day was officially celebrated in the U.S., where it was heralded by numerous bloggers, coalescing around the launch of the Geek Pride Day website. Math author, Euler Book Prize winner, and geek blogger
John Derbyshire
announced
[6]
that he would be appearing in the
Fifth Avenue
parade on the prime number float, dressed as number 57.
See also
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References
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- ^
"The Conversation: Celebrating Your Inner Geek"
.
ABC News
. May 25, 2010.
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Salas, Javier (May 26, 2006).
"Comecocos y mangas toman la calle: la revancha de los frikis (Spanish)"
. Telecinco. Archived from
the original
on July 20, 2011
. Retrieved
May 26,
2006
.
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Perez, Javier (May 26, 2006).
"Orgullo friki (Spanish)"
. El Mundo
. Retrieved
May 26,
2005
.
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Ramos, David (May 25, 2006).
"25 de mayo: Dia del Orgullo Friki"
. 20minutos
. Retrieved
May 25,
2005
.
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La Revista (May 25, 2006).
"25 de mayo: Dia del Orgullo Friki"
. 20minutos.es
. Retrieved
May 15,
2012
.
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"
"Hug a Geek", The Corner, Thursday May 22, 2008, 8:44 am"
. Corner.nationalreview.com. May 22, 2008. Archived from
the original
on June 20, 2010
. Retrieved
May 15,
2012
.
External links
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