The term geek in Spanish refers to users who are members of a new "cultural elite" obsessed with new technologies and computers . Jon Katz once claimed: "Most geeks overcame a suffocatingly tedious educational system, where they were surrounded by obnoxious social values and hostile companions, to end up creating the freest and most inventive culture on the planet: the Internet and the World Wide. Web".
The original term in English geek has a broader meaning and equivalent to the Spanish term geek . For its part, geek is a word that comes from the English freak and means strange, extravagant, bizarre, and that was originally used for people with malformations or physical anomalies (meaning that it still retains in English). Today, geeks are people who dedicate themselves with passion, even with some obsession, to "unusual" subjects, hobbies or hobbies . As for the nerds , in Spanish their equivalents would be the terms "brainiac" or "nerd" .
