# What celebrities are technology/Internet savvy?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celebrities-are-technology-internet-savvy/197844
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [August 26, 2003, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celebrities-are-technology-internet-savvy/197844 "2003-08-26T21:14:16Z")
**Posts on this page:** 17
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### Author:  [@neutron\_star](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/neutron_star)
#### Post date: [August 26, 2003, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celebrities-are-technology-internet-savvy/197844/1 "2003-08-26T21:14:16Z")
Inspired by **bradjam** ’s “Celebrities online - anyone met?” thread, does anyone know of any nerdy celebrities? Like a rock star who built and maintains his own web site, or an actor that does online chats without needing someone else type for him?
One person I can think of is Will Wheaton (“Star Trek:TNG,” also the movie “Stand by Me.”) He has his own site and even posts on Slashdot, whose motto, of course, is “News for nerds. Stuff that matters.”
I also remember listening to Howard Stern one morning in the mid-'90s while he was ranting about how there are too many file formats for the same types of media. He mentioned JPEGs, GIFs, WAVs, and even AU files, IIRC. (This was in the days before MP3.)
Anyone else?
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### Author:  [@UrbanChic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UrbanChic)
#### Post date: [August 26, 2003, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celebrities-are-technology-internet-savvy/197844/2 "2003-08-26T21:23:13Z")
Is Gore a celebrity?
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### Author:  [@Rabid\_Squirrel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rabid_Squirrel)
#### Post date: [August 26, 2003, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celebrities-are-technology-internet-savvy/197844/3 "2003-08-26T22:10:44Z")
[**Robin Williams**](http://www.invisibledream.com/news/comments/1030045420,81224,.php) lists Warcraft3 and Half Life amongst his favourite games, and plays other MMO games too.
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### Author:  [@World\_Eater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/World_Eater)
#### Post date: [August 26, 2003, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celebrities-are-technology-internet-savvy/197844/4 "2003-08-26T22:19:50Z")
Isn’t Ed Begley (sp?) Jr. into some enviro tech stuff? IIRC he’s been using an electric car for over a decade.
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### Author:  [@jimmmy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jimmmy)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2003, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celebrities-are-technology-internet-savvy/197844/5 "2003-08-27T00:07:22Z")
Wil Wheaton keeps a blog
> **[WIL WHEATON dot NET](http://wilwheaton.net/)**
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> 50,000 Monkeys at 50,000 Typewriters Can't Be Wrong
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### Author:  [@Wolfian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wolfian)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2003, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celebrities-are-technology-internet-savvy/197844/6 "2003-08-27T00:19:52Z")
Porn star Asia Carrera constructed and runs her own website (I can’t link to it for obvious reasons, but its’ very simple to find). I’m not much of a computer person, but it looks and runs pretty well to me.
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### Author:  [@Neurotik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Neurotik)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2003, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celebrities-are-technology-internet-savvy/197844/7 "2003-08-27T00:30:08Z")
Curt Schilling is a massive geek. He’s an EverQuest addict (his character is a level 49 monk named Scythehands Voxslayer). Apparently, he’s been messing with them since the original AAPLs in the early 80s. He also keeps video of all of his pitches and several scouting videos of over 450 hitters burned on CDs. Every pitch he’s thrown since 1997 is it’s own MPEG file and they’re indexed so he can see every first pitch he’s thrown to a certain batter, or every fastball away, or whatever.
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### Author:  [@wolf\_meister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolf_meister)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2003, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celebrities-are-technology-internet-savvy/197844/8 "2003-08-27T00:40:11Z")
I believe the comedian **Sinbad** is an Apple & MacIntosh fanatic.
I also believe **Sandra Bullock** is very much involved with computers, the Internet, etc. (Don’t know anything more specific about her computer interests though).
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### Author:  [@if6was9](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/if6was9)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2003, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celebrities-are-technology-internet-savvy/197844/9 "2003-08-27T03:12:12Z")
I would guess that Penn of Penn and Teller is savvy. (Can’t think of his first name.)
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### Author:  [@Dijon\_Warlock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dijon_Warlock)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2003, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celebrities-are-technology-internet-savvy/197844/10 "2003-08-27T03:31:11Z")
I believe that Andy Giddings, the current keyboardist (and occasional squeezy-thingist) for Jethro Tull, is still the webmaster for that group. [Their website](http://www.jethrotull.com) has always been top-notch.
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### Author:  [@Madawc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Madawc)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2003, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celebrities-are-technology-internet-savvy/197844/11 "2003-08-27T03:40:58Z")
i think it’s Penn Jillette
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### Author:  [@KidCharlemagne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KidCharlemagne)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2003, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celebrities-are-technology-internet-savvy/197844/12 "2003-08-27T03:52:03Z")
> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by Rabid\_Squirrel \*
> \*\*[**Robin Williams**](http://www.invisibledream.com/news/comments/1030045420,81224,.php) lists Warcraft3 and Half Life amongst his favourite games, and plays other MMO games too. \*\*
Damn that’s cool.
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### Author:  [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2003, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celebrities-are-technology-internet-savvy/197844/13 "2003-08-27T05:22:21Z")
> [@](#):
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> Porn star Asia Carrera constructed and runs her own website (I can’t link to it for obvious reasons, but its’ very simple to find). I’m not much of a computer person, but it looks and runs pretty well to me.
Supposedly some tech journal was interviewing Carrera about her website and apparently doubted she was as computer proficient as she claimed. So when she showed up for the interview they asked her to install a new hard drive in a demo computer. Carrera was able to do the installation and had the computer running in a matter of minutes.
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### Author:  [@Purd\_Werfect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Purd_Werfect)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2003, 5:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celebrities-are-technology-internet-savvy/197844/14 "2003-08-27T05:39:58Z")
Todd Rundgren is very big on digital media, and has been messing with computer music since the 80’s when he used an Amiga.
At least two of the members of Radiohead use computers extensively as tools for recording. In the past, I’ve read that they’ve actually written some of the software they use to make albums.
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### Author:  [@rjung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjung)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2003, 7:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celebrities-are-technology-internet-savvy/197844/15 "2003-08-27T07:15:12Z")
Just another toss for Al Gore. “Inventing the internet” jokes aside, he has written some fairly insightful position papers about tech matters.
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### Author:  [@widdershins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/widdershins)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2003, 10:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celebrities-are-technology-internet-savvy/197844/16 "2003-08-27T10:23:01Z")
Thomas Dolby has been a technical innovator in the music industry for many years as well as founding his company, [beatnik.com](http://beatnik.com). Not the biggest name famewise, but technology savvy isn’t even the tip of the iceberg in his case.
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### Author:  [@gallows\_fodder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gallows_fodder)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2003, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-celebrities-are-technology-internet-savvy/197844/17 "2003-08-27T13:48:13Z")
Adam Baldwin (Jayne on the late series _Firefly_) used to post regularly on the Fox message board devoted to the show.
Jason Isaacs is a Mac geek.