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.