Before geek culture went more mainstream, being a nerd in the 1970s and 1980s meant living a very different lifestyle than it does today. It entailed afternoons spent hunched over graph paper mapping dungeons, feeding quarters into arcade machines, debating starship schematics, or programming in BASIC on a beige home computer. Not to mention the cafeteria social awkwardness. Long before superhero movies dominated the box office, geek fandom thrived in basements and comic book stores. These photos remind us what it was like to be a nerd back when it was literally the opposite of cool.Nerdy Teacher is Ready for the Next Classcnx.cmd.push(function() {cnx({playerId: "106e33c0-3911-473c-b599-b1426db57530",}).render("0270c398a82f44f49c23c16122516796");});Blazer Boy Ready for SuccessFlannel Nerd in his natural habitatNerd With Rabbit Ear Antennas and Simple PoseNerd in Full Retro GloryNerd Prank AttackAnother Desk, Another Nerd, Same EnergyNerds being Nerds From the BegginingOne Time a Nerd, Always a NerdThe Typical Nerd Reading a Typical Nerd MagazineThe post Photos Remembering What it Was Like to Be a Nerd in the ’70s & ’80s appeared first on Den of Geek.