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I haven't posted for ages, but I shall surrender to this when I met people meme. Almost everyone on my Friends list can be readily classified as a Geek or a Goth, and this explains how (and when) I met them.

Geeks or geek associates
Up to about autumn 1995: sion_a, ewx, aldabra, meirion; all at various parties in Scotland Road or Churchill. Perhaps also naranek, or maybe I just came across him on ucam.chat then. I must have first come across mtbc100 on ucam.chat as well, though I have little idea when exactly.

1995-1996ish: damerell, kaet, timeplease, mobbsy; all from gatherings in people's college rooms, mostly after Monday night pizza (then sometimes at Caffe Piazza still).

1997-2000ish: angoel, ceb, dreamingchristi, emperor, fivemack, fluffymormegil, ghoti, kitty_goth, lnr, ptc24, senji, simont, teleute; mostly at CUSFS events (eg. discussions in my college room or Thursday drinks at New Hall) or parties at Greenend or Relativity; kitty_goth stands out, however, as I met him in mobbsy's TH room one night, when he was making unorthodox uses of thick-cut orange marmalade.

Since 2000ish: antinomy, cjwatson, crazyscot, davefish, lark_ascending, nassus, simonb, sphyg; mainly associated with House! and parties there.

Goths (unless first met in a geek context, and hence covered already)
All since early 2000, when I began going to the Q Club: _dionysus_, aiwendel, alixandrea, blackmetalbaz, darkgoblin, grahamb, hampsterboy, lhiss, mrph, nisaba, oakdryad, olithered, razornet, robinbloke, scy11a, surje, technotom, valkyriekaren, wechsler; all at the Q or the Kambar or possibly the KSR.

Other
clawboy42: in the Corner House pub on Newmarket Road, as a roleplaying friend of G, in late 2001;
conflux: at BiCon in Edinburgh several years ago, in a BDSM workshop to be precise;
doogle: at the Electric Ballroom in December 2001, as G's old friend;
dreamserpent: at GB's house, at a party last year some time (in fact, that's about the only time we've ever met);
ergotia, zotz: in the Elsinore at Whitby (not at the same time; GC recognised me and kaet from Eastercon);
rowan_leigh: at a performance of Fire and Forget last year, in the Boat Race;
velvetfox: on Castle Mound, at dusk, a few weeks ago (you are my most recent addition!).

Hopefully this classification will not be horribly offensive to anyone! I just like organising information into groups :-)

Update: I am unhappy with my Goth section and feel it could be subdivided further, as I feel I actually remember more than I originally thought:

Early 2000-late 2001: _dionysus_, blackmetalbaz, darkgoblin, lhiss, mrph, olithered, razornet, robinbloke, technotom, valkyriekaren; all in the Q club while it still existed, at the Calling or WUS or Tight-laced or Puzzlebox. valkyriekaren I possibly met earlier, in a Geek context, though I don't really remember: it just seems plausible. technotom I particularly remember as being presented to me on a leash by KB while she went off to get a drink. zotz logically fits into this group as well, though I did not first meet him at the Q.

2002-present: aiwendel, alixandrea, ergotia, grahamb, hampsterboy, nisaba, oakdryad, scy11a, surje, velvetfox, wechsler; in a wider range of goth-related contexts, mostly via G (some people here I certainly knew of and recognised by sight before this, like nisaba, but didn't actually speak to, AFAIK, until later). clawboy42, doogle, dreamserpent and rowan_leigh might also fit into this group, since I met them via G or in vaguely goth-related settings, though I suspect they'd be more or less unhappy to be counted as goths.

Which leaves only conflux as unclassifiable :-)