The show stars Farrah Forke as Carey, a technophobic woman hired to be the office manager of a highly successful software company named Cyberbyte, owned by Warren Mosbey (Peter Scolari).
[2] Warren and the other employees (played by actors Stephen Tobolowsky, David Kaufman, Corey Feldman and Adam Biesk), were stereotypical nerds or "dweebs", highly intelligent yet socially inept, contrasting with the character of Carey.
She and Stephen Tobolowksy would both appear together again the following year as part of the main cast of the sitcom, Mr. Rhodes, which was co-created by Dweebs creator Peter Noah.
[7][8][9][3] Back in 1995, a sitcom about social outcasts in the tech industry was an original idea, and would later be successfully used in shows like The IT Crowd, The Big Bang Theory, and Silicon Valley.
[10] An article in Vulture also compared the show to The Big Bang Theory and Silicon Valley and called it a trailblazer,[5] saying that the show was "quite possibly the first American sitcom to focus its attention on the tech world and the integration of computers into daily life" and was "practically avant garde for its time",[5] due to the fact that it "existed at a time when a substantial portion of America, but by no means a majority (or even close), was computer-savvy".