1)Techies is the Plural form of Techie
2)A term used to refer to people who are interested in technology almost to the point of obsession.
3)People that are extremely
knowledgeable about
Information Technology. These individuals generally have built custom CPU towers that run a opensource OS from either a UNIX or Linux thread. As well as spend Much of there free time researching new Computer technologies.
4)Techies is a term that "Computer Nerds" may
use to refer to themself or other "Computer Nerds" but may not be used by others (Kind of like the equivalent to the N word for "Computer Nerds") It is derogatory for non Techies to refer to others as Techies.
*Can also be spelled "Techys"
((however the "Teamsters" that work back stage at theaters are now using the term "Techies" (ie spelling not y) to try and dissociate them selves with the teamsters that work on film sets.)Not cool!!! real Techies/Techys have come up with pretty much every major advancement in the
technological field for the last 40+years. without them you wouldn't have the computerized lighting and sound systems that you use todays. that would make your jobs a lot harder. So please respect the title)
Techie 1: Hi I need a patch to make a new
Barracuda HDD work with freenas v0.68
Techie 2: check with the other techies useing that OS
or
Techie 1: Hi I'm new @ this forum but am comp lit and do consider my self to be a Techie but guess we're all techies here
or
non-techie 1: look at those new kids
over there they're so lame
non-techie 2: yeah I heard they're part of the
Computer Club what techies