from
Jargon File (4.4.4, 14 Aug 2003)
geekasm
Originally from a quote on the PBS show Scientific American Frontiers
(week of May 21st 2002) by MIT professor Alex Slocum: "When they build
a machine, if they do the calculations right, the machine works and
you get this intense ... uhh ... just like a geekasm, from knowing
that what you created in your mind and on the computer is actually
doing what you told it to do". Unsurprisingly, this usage went live on
the Web almost instantly. Every hacker knows this feeling. Compare
earlier {progasm}.