Thirty six years ago today, a landmark film was released in the science fiction genre. It’s a little film you may have heard of called Star Wars. In celebration of that glorious day that changed geekdom forever, today is Geek Pride Day, so wear it proudly!

But also, don’t forget the hardships your geek forefathers bore. It wasn’t always as easy to be a geek as it was today. Besides the daily beatings in school, we had it hard. Nowadays you can transfer files just by touching your phones together, that’s insane!

Back in my day we used floppy disks, and hundreds of them, or those horribly designed Zip disks. Or if we wanted to download an image from our favorite BBS (not the Internet, but BBS, the Internet wasn’t even a thing yet) it would take like 30 minutes, not .08 seconds. My first hard drive was 235 MB. MEGAbytes. Now my laptop has 2 Terabytes by default. That’s a million times bigger! Don’t believe how hard it always was, check out this timeline on the History of File Sharing to see how far we’ve come in just over 40 years.

A hero is only as good as his rogues gallery. Breaking up muggings and robberies is all well and good, but taking down a super villain and his diabolical machinations is an entirely different story.

With today being the release of Star Trek: Into Darkness, I’m celebrating with a sci-fi list. Not best series or anything, but best elements from sci-fi.

Memes? Who doesn’t love em? The power of the internet to force feed funny (or unfunny) things down its own throat for extended periods of time is totally awesome right? Because it’s not a thing on the internet until it goes viral!

With today being May 4th, even though I’m at the Star Trek Con, I thought I would do something Star Wars related.

I used to be huge into Star Wars. Back when AOL was only 5 hours a month, I spent those 5 hours in a 1 hour Star Wars trivia chatroom each Friday night. But then the dark day came on May 19, 1999, and I decided to switch my primary allegiance to Star Trek.