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Yesterday's SMBC:

The aftercomic:

(And in the other direction, this…)

The development of dork is interesting — according to the OED (entry dated 1989), it began (circa 1964) as an American slang term for "penis", and then came to be (circa 1972) "A foolish or stupid person; also a general term of contempt".

Then at some point it joined geek and nerd in the list of disparaging words for people with odd interests. But as far as I know, no one has integrated this third dimension into the geek-nerd space developed by Burr Settles:

Update — I was wrong, as Dan Hirschman pointed out in the comments (source):

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