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My gatekeeping was referencing a need for "classic nerd" vs "nerd". I find no need to differentiate between what it "used" to mean and what it means today. It makes more sense to categorize the type of nerd to be honest. I don't think anyone is "just" a nerd. They're a nerd in a certain topic or subject.
Nerd means the same thing, just expanded to include different topics. Nerd back in the day could mean various things. You could be a nerd for liking dinosaurs "too much" but didn't mean you knew about computers. So it's just that saying "classic nerd" doesn't really clarify who yorue talking about.
Nerd back in the day (at least where I lived) did mean something else though. It was a label people used for people they did not want in their group/community/neighborhood.