Kibo (pronounced /ˈkaɪboʊ/) is the nickname and username of James Parry (b. A nickname is a Name of an entity or thing that is not its Proper name. Users in a Computing context refers to one who uses a computer system July 13, 1967), a Usenetter known for his sense of humor, various surrealist net pranks, an absurdly long .signature,^[1] and a machine-assisted knack for joining any thread in which his nom de guerre is mentioned (to "kiboze"). Events 1174 - William I of Scotland, a key rebel in the Revolt of 1173-1174, is captured at Alnwick by forces loyal to Year 1967 ( MCMLXVII) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar of the 1967 Gregorian calendar. Usenet, a Portmanteau of "user" and "network" is a world-wide distributed Internet discussion system Humour or humor (see spelling differences) is the tendency of particular cognitive experiences to provoke Laughter and provide Amusement Surrealism is a cultural movement that began in the early-1920s and is best known for the visual artworks and writings of the group members A signature block (often abbreviated as signature, sig block, sig file,. A threaded discussion is an electronic discussion (such as one via E-mail, e-mail list, Bulletin board, Newsgroup, or Internet forum A pseudonym is a fictitious alternative to a person's legal name (see Alias) His exploits have earned him a multitude of enthusiasts, who celebrate him as the head deity of the parody religion kibology, centered on the humor newsgroup alt. A parody religion or mock religion is either a Parody of a Religion, Sect or Cult, or a relatively unserious religion that many Kibology is a Parody religion, partly satirizing Scientology. A newsgroup is a Repository usually within the Usenet system for messages posted from many users in different locations religion. kibology.

Contents 1 Background 2 Growing fame 3 References 4 External links

Background

James Parry grew up and lived in Scotia, New York. Scotia is a village in Schenectady County, New York, United States. He showed early computing skills, such as being able to open up and reprogram ROM video game cartridges such as those for the Atari 2600, but was more interested in graphics and artistic pursuits. In various types of electronic equipment a cartridge can refer one method of adding different functionality or content (e The Atari 2600 is a Video game console released in October 1977 In this vein, he initially was a Computer engineering major at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) in Troy, New York, but moved to Boston, Massachusetts in 1990 and attended Emerson College, where he studied videography and graphic design. Computer engineering (or Computer Systems Engineering) encompasses broad areas of both Electrical engineering and Computer science. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, or RPI, is a Nonsectarian private Research University located in Troy, New York Troy is a City in New York, US, and the County seat of Rensselaer County. Year 1990 ( MCMXC) was a Common year starting on Monday (link displays the 1990 Gregorian calendar) Emerson College is a private university in Boston, Massachusetts that focuses on "communication and the arts" At that time, he also worked as a typeface designer and for the world.std.com internet service provider. In Typography, a typeface is a set of one or more Fonts designed with stylistic unity each comprising a coordinated set of Glyphs A typeface usually comprises The World is an Internet service provider headquartered in Brookline, Massachusetts. An Internet service provider ( ISP, also called Internet access provider or IAP) is a company which primarily offers their customers access to the Internet He has an artistic eye for typeface and developed several fonts in use today. In Typography, a typeface is a set of one or more Fonts designed with stylistic unity each comprising a coordinated set of Glyphs A typeface usually comprises In typography a font (also fount) is traditionally defined as a complete character set of a single size and style of a particular Typeface.

Many assume his nickname is derived from the acronym KIBO, although Parry himself has repeatedly denied this. For other uses see Kibo (disambiguation. KIBO is an Acronym for Knowledge In Bullshit Out. Another rumor has it being short for King Body, a pseudonym he very briefly used on computer forums as an undergraduate at RPI in the late 1980s. A computer is a Machine that manipulates data according to a list of instructions. In some Educational systems undergraduate education is Post-secondary education up to the level of a Bachelor's degree. The 1980s was the decade spanning from January 1 1980 to December 31 1989. [1]

Kibo has publicly stated that he has prosopagnosia and is a supertaster. Prosopagnosia (sometimes known as face blindness) is a disorder of Face perception where the ability to recognize Faces is impaired while the ability to A supertaster is a person who experiences Taste with far greater intensity than average

Growing fame

In the early 1990s, as public awareness grew of the Internet and Usenet, Parry received a great deal of national publicity, including a cover story in Wired magazine, and mentions in Playboy and Time magazine. Wired is a full-color monthly American Magazine and on-line periodical published in San Francisco, California since March 1993 Playboy is an American Men's magazine, founded in Chicago Illinois, by Hugh Hefner and his associates which has grown into Playboy Time (trademarked in capitals as TIME) is a weekly American Newsmagazine, similar to Newsweek and

He became known on Usenet for grepping all occurrences of the term "Kibo"—whether intended to refer to Kibo himself or not—and replying, often in a fanciful manner. grep is a command line text search utility originally written for Unix. A typical exchange^[2]:

Mary Rose Campbell wrote:
>At CMU, we also have something called Gray Matter in the center of Skibo
>(our student union substitute).   It's a bunch of shapes, walls, holes,
>and steps covered with the same dark gray carpet that's on the floor. 
>It looks like a giant cat toy. 

Actually, it's a life-size model of S.  Kibo himself, my great great
grand-uncle.   This was before he evolved past the 'giant metazoic
amoeba' stage a few aeons ago.   Now he's a trilobite. 

                                                        -- K. 

This practice became known as kibozing.

He is perhaps best known on Usenet for his famous (or infamous) "Happynet Proclamation" (1992), circulated to many newsgroups, some absurdly unrelated, which satirised the endless flamewars on the network, with Parry posing as a godlike being issuing an edict full of in-jokes and humor targets that claimed to unify all news into one glorious totality, "happynet". Flaming is the hostile and insulting interaction between Internet users In the article, Kibo claimed that^[3]:

"UNDER THE AUSPICES OF THE ALL-WISE LEADER KIBO, THE NEW NETWORK SHALL BE ORGANIZED THUSLY: Three hierarchies encompassing ALL HUMAN DISCOURSE:

nonbozo. * bozo. * megabozo. *

It is estimated that the statistical breakdown of HappyNet will be thus:

1. 0000% nonbozo. * 90. 0000% bozo. * 9. 0000% megabozo. * (Computations courtesy of Bell Labs) Bozo. * will, of course, be subdivided logically: bozo. nerd. *, bozo. tv. *, bozo. inane. *, bozo. boring. *, bozo. sex. *, bozo. argue. *. "

The term "bozo" and related jokes like the physics particle the "bozon" were Parry hallmarks. Revisions of the Manifesto were published in 1994 and 1998, and HappyWeb was introduced in 1999.

In 1992, at age 25 (ten years younger than the constitutional minimum age for election), he launched a spoof campaign for President of the United States. Year 1992 ( MCMXCII) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1992 Gregorian calendar) The Constitution of the United States of America is the supreme Law of the United States. The President of the United States is the Head of state and Head of government of the United States and is the highest political official in United States by For a short time, the official White House website listed "Kibo" as a candidate, with links to statements by him, because it had mirrored a university candidate speech archive including him with George Bush, Bill Clinton, and Ross Perot. See also Executive Office of the President of the United States The White House, formerly known as the Executive Mansion, is the Official residence George Herbert Walker Bush (born June 12 1924 served as the forty-first President of the United States from 1989 to 1993 William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton (born William Jefferson Blythe III, August 19 1946 served as the forty-second President of the United States Henry Ross Perot (born June 27 1930 is an American businessman from Texas, who is best known for seeking the office of President of the United States in This led the Libertarian Party to complain that its candidate was not included, though a joke candidate was. The Libertarian Party is a United States political party founded on December 11 1971

For reasons unknown, after constant daily changes for over a decade, his personal website stayed stagnant from late March 2004 until late December 2005. Personal web pages are World Wide Web pages created by an individual to contain content of a personal nature It has since been updated, though not nearly as often as years past. Kibo has hinted at a possible site redesign. ^[4] But as Kibo noted on his site in early 2006, the amount of posting to USENET he's done is truly enormous:

"By the way, by my official estimates, having posted an average of 20 articles a week to alt. religion. kibology during the past 15 years, probably about 500 words of original content per article, that's. . . seven point eight mmmmillion words. Equivalent to about 100 books. Suddenly I'm frightening myself. (And the "20 per week" number is my low estimate. )

"Asimov wrote 400 books, but he didn't have to contend with writing his own Web backend to index, typeset, and publish 'em. Isaac Asimov (c January 2 1920 &ndash April 6 1992 ˈaɪzək ˈæzɪmʌv originally Исаак Озимов but now transcribed into Russian as, was a Russian Also he didn't talk about himself nearly as much as I do. "

References

• Wired magazine profile, September 1993. Wired is a full-color monthly American Magazine and on-line periodical published in San Francisco, California since March 1993

External links

• Kibo's website
• The alt.religion.kibology newsgroup (via Google Groups)
• http://www.geocities.com/Athens/6270/kibosig.html - . Google Groups is a free service from Google where groups of people have discussions about common interests signature

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