Geeks

How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho

Jesse and Eric, room mates in the tiny town of Caldwell, Idaho, were nineteen-year-old working-class kids eking out a seven-dollar-an-hour living selling and fixing computers. They spent every spare cent on their computers, and every spare moment online. Their families had been torn apart by divorce and hard times, separation and illness.

Jesse and Eric were proud geeks - suspicious or disdainful of authority figures, proud of their status as outsiders, fervent in their belief in the positive power of technology.

'Geeks' is the story of how Jesse and Eric - and others like them - used technology to try to change their lives and alter their destiny. It explores a growing subculture about which many of us know little, a world with its own language, traditions and taboos. In telling the stories of Jessie, Eric and others like them, 'Geeks' is a story about the very human face of technology.