Six More Tech Cults

snydeq writes "InfoWorld's Dan Tynan takes a humorous look at six 'sects' of fanatical tech loyalists. 'Fandom, devotion, obsession — certain technologies have a way of inspiring an extremely loyal following. So committed are these devotees, you might as well call them technology cults,' Tynan writes in this update to last year's list, which included fans of the Newton, Commodore, and Ruby on Rails, among other technologies. 'Sometimes these cults are inspired by elegant lines of code. Other times it's dedication to an ideal. Some are looking to transform the way software is made. Others hope to transform humanity itself. And some just want to argue about it all — endlessly and at great length.'"

Comments

Re:Kinda old news isn't it?

[emurphy42]

The first link should go here or, for a printer-friendly version, here.

Editor Link Failure

[Obyron]

No surprise, the editors put the wrong link in the article. All three links link to last year's article. Here is the new article.

Re:Cult of Math

[biryokumaru]

I'm sorry to be the one to break this to you, but they don't actually issue the real geek cards to people who watch Voyager.

Re:Kinda old news isn't it?

[Lars T.]

From article: By Dan Tynan Created 2009-05-04

I became suspicious when he predicted the resurgence of palm.

That's why it's also a dupe: http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/05/04/2039219 - note that it was posted on the same day.