As a kid I actually didn't really associate "gamers" and "technologists" for some reason. Now I hear people equate them more often, but in the '90s I tended to think of them as distinct groups with only some overlap. Obviously that may reflect only some peculiar social groups at my particular schools.
The kids who had high-level characters on Everquest, attended all the game cons, were in line at midnight for new releases, etc.; were mostly not the same people as the kids who were active in the local BBS scene, played around with installing Linux, were making silly LAMP websites, etc. Not zero overlap, but just in terms of social groups and interests they were clearly identifiable as different clusters of people. Overall the gamers were not as correlated with math/science interest either. At least as I remember it, the "computer nerds" tended to be more often the same people who were also in math club, AP science classes, etc., while gamers were less often represented there.
The kids who had high-level characters on Everquest, attended all the game cons, were in line at midnight for new releases, etc.; were mostly not the same people as the kids who were active in the local BBS scene, played around with installing Linux, were making silly LAMP websites, etc. Not zero overlap, but just in terms of social groups and interests they were clearly identifiable as different clusters of people. Overall the gamers were not as correlated with math/science interest either. At least as I remember it, the "computer nerds" tended to be more often the same people who were also in math club, AP science classes, etc., while gamers were less often represented there.