Plenty of old school programmers were not &quot;outcast nerds&quot; at all, but people who happened to stumble on the subject. The whole nerd thing is something that happened mainly at certain universities and then when computing become more popular in high-schools. Women have far more than men been interested in things that doesn&#x27;t mean money. Just that if you&#x27;re a book, arts, craft and&#x2F;or music nerd it doesn&#x27;t count. By the way, when did computers ever not bring financial incentives? Back when mostly women did it maybe...