Usenet people Usenet people Archimedes Plutonium (born July 5, 1950) is primarily noted for his varied and eccentric contributions to Usenet. Plutonium repeatedly claimed to be the greatest living scientist, and referred to himself at least once as "The King of Science" ** , although he is almost universally regarded as a crank. One of Plutonium's earliest and most memorable posts in December, 1993 ** replies to Andrew Wiles' report on the status of his proof of Fermat's last theorem. ...more on Wikipedia about "Archimedes Plutonium"
Barbara Schwarz, née Bretschneider, is a German expatriate now living in Salt Lake City, Utah. She was the president of the German branch of the Church of Scientology from August 3, 1983 until July 10, 1984. ** Schwarz is no longer active in the Church of Scientology (she states that she was "kicked out" in 1984 ** ), but she still considers herself a Scientologist, if no longer officially a member of the Church, and despite having filed frivolous lawsuits against the church. ...more on Wikipedia about "Barbara Schwarz"
Brad Templeton (born near Toronto in 1960), son of Charles Templeton and Sylvia Murphy, is a software engineer and entrepreneur. ...more on Wikipedia about "Brad Templeton"
David D. Friedman (b. 1945), is a libertarian writer who became a leading figure in the anarcho-capitalist community with the publication of his book The Machinery of Freedom ( 1971). He has also authored the books Price Theory ( 1986), Law's Order ( 1999) and Hidden Order: The Economics of Everyday Life ( 1996). ...more on Wikipedia about "David Friedman"
E Teflon Piano is the internet pen name a humorous writer best known for posts on Usenet. In the early/mid 1990s, he was a law student at the University of Baltimore who inrelieved the pressure of studies by developing a legal system consonant with the tenets of Kibology. E (no dot) Teflon Piano's innovations included creating a system analagous to copyright and property ownership for the virtual world of the internet, based on calling " dibs". For a time, E Teflon Piano claimed dibs on the letter E. He created "the Institute of Misapplied Psychometry" (for some years with a website of that title) as a vehicle for parodying Internet get-rich-quick schemes and as a forum for adjudicating legal disputes among Kibology followers and related usenet groups. E Teflon Piano may be better known for a weekly, then monthly, then quarterly newsletter, "This Week in Alt Religion Kibology (TWARK)", which humorously summariezed the week's flame-fests, cascdes, burnout letters, and lunatic screeds, and also declared who was "The Winner". TWARK is still archived here and there around the Web, possibly in violation of copyright, although since E Teflon Piano himself has refered to some of these mirrors in his usenet posts, he seems not to mind. ...more on Wikipedia about "E Teflon Piano"
Elf Mathieu Sternberg, born May 7, 1966, is the former keeper of the alt.sex FAQ. He is also the author of many articles on sexuality and sexual practices. ...more on Wikipedia about "Elf Sternberg"
Francis Muir (born April 27, 1926), a.k.a. fido ( ** ), ffoulkes ( ** ), fideaux ( ** ), or our beloved phydeaux ( ** ), is a former Research Associate at the Geophysics Department of Stanford University, and a notable Usenetter known for his broad erudition and supercilious airs mainly contributed to the newsgroup rec.arts.books ( ** ). Muir graduated from Oxford in 1950 with an MA degree in Mathematics. He worked as a research and field exploration seismologist with Seismograph Service from 1954 through 1962, and then with West Australian Petroleum as a field supervisor until 1967. He then transferred to Chevron Oilfield Research Company which he left in 1983 as Senior Research Associate. Since then he has held an appointment as Consulting Professor in the Geophysics Department at Stanford, first with Jon Claerbout's SEP group and more recently with Amos Nur's SRB Project. He consults with industry, particularly on applications of velocity anisotropy to oilfield development, and is a co-investigator on a Project on Anisotropy for the DOE. He is a member of the SEG Research Committee, an erstwhile Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society, and an active participant in the Web-based "anisotropists" list. Asteroid 95802 Francismuir, commemorates Muir in his capacities as the mentor and advisor of its discoverer ( ** ). Muir retired from Stanford in 2005. ...more on Wikipedia about "Francis Muir" The view on shortopedia.
Fred Cherry gained some measure of fame as self-styled "elector of homophobia" in his fight against (in his own words) "the Organized Homosexual Conspiracy of America", who he said opposed his own fight to get his freedom to patronize prostitutes recognized as being a matter of civil rights. Cherry, not known for taking kindly to criticism of his views, became known as a Usenet personality for his frequently unsubstantiated accusations of North American Man/Boy Love Association (NAMBLA) membership and of literal support for the Nazi party (going far beyond the issue raised by Godwins Law), directed against those opposed to his cause of choice and seemingly directed almost at random against those gays unlucky enough to encounter him, even those outspoken in their opposition to NAMBLA, some of them openly supportive of the legalization of prostitution. These accusations were often included in massively crossposted articles which would appear in dozens of newsgroups at a time. This being a violation of the Terms of Service at most Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Cherry had to frequently change ISPs during most of his career. Cherry passed away in 2003. ...more on Wikipedia about "Fred Cherry"
Eugene H. Spafford (born 1956) (known colloquially as "Spaf") is a professor of computer science at Purdue University and a leading computer security expert. A historically significant Internet figure, he is renowned for first analyzing the Morris Worm, one of the earliest computer worms, and his participation in the Usenet backbone cabal. Spafford is a member of the President's Information Technology Advisory Committee (PITAC), has been an advisor to the National Science Foundation (NSF), and serves as an advisor to over a dozen other government agencies and major corporations. ...more on Wikipedia about "Gene Spafford"
Gregory K. Deeter is a stamp collector in Houston, Texas. He describes himself as the founder of Boomspeed, a web hosting provider. ...more on Wikipedia about "Greg Deeter"
Helena Kobrin is an American Scientologist and lawyer, working for the Religious Technology Center, which controls the trademarks of Scientology and the copyright of the works of L. Ron Hubbard. She caused controversy in the mid-1990s when she tried to get the newsgroup alt.religion.scientology shut down, an action that made her infamous on Usenet. ...more on Wikipedia about "Helena Kobrin"
Interröbang Cartel is a self-described "international USENET punk band". The origins of the band can be traced back to a joking post made to alt.religion.kibology by Jacob W. Haller (also known as jwgh) on April 13, 2003. With a few notable exceptions, their songs tend to the very surreal and/or absurd, much like the newsgroup from which it originated; they vary considerably in style, with almost none of the songs actually being punk. The name " Interrobang Cartel" was originally suggested by John D Salt as a stage name for himself, but became the band name at the request of Jeremy Impson. The umlaut was later added by jwgh, but it is not always used. ...more on Wikipedia about "Interröbang Cartel"
Joseph Michael Straczynski (born July 17, 1954) is an award-winning American writer/ producer of television series, novels, short stories, comic books, and radio dramas. He is also a playwright, journalist and author of a well-regarded tome on scriptwriting. He was the creator, executive producer and head writer for the science fiction TV series Babylon 5 and Crusade. Straczynski wrote most of the Babylon 5 episodes, notably an unbroken 59-episode run including all of the third and fourth seasons. He is also a participant in Usenet and other early computer networks, interacting with fans through various online forums (including GEnie, CompuServe, and America Online) since 1985. He is a friend and collaborator with speculative fiction author Harlan Ellison, a student and friend of Norman Corwin and an outspoken admirer of the work of Rod Serling. ...more on Wikipedia about "J. Michael Straczynski"
Jack Sarfatti (born September 14, 1939) is a physicist ...more on Wikipedia about "Jack Sarfatti"
Joel "Jay" K. Furr (born September 20, 1967 in Roanoke, Virginia) was a Usenet personality in the early and mid 1990s, immortalized in the newsgroups alt.fan.joel-furr, alt.bonehead.joel-furr, and alt.joel-furr.die.die.die. He was part of the Usenet cabal, pretender to the throne of James " Kibo" Parry, and the bitter enemy of Serdar Argic. ...more on Wikipedia about "Joel Furr"
John McCarthy (born September 4, 1927, in Boston, Massachusetts, sometimes known affectionately as Uncle John McCarthy), is a prominent computer scientist and notable Usenetter who received the Turing Award in 1971 for his major contributions to the field of Artificial Intelligence. In fact, he was responsible for the coining of the term "Artificial Intelligence" (at the Dartmouth Conference in 1955). ...more on Wikipedia about "John McCarthy (computer scientist)"
John Titor was the name used by a purported time traveller from the year 2036 that posted on several time travel-related Internet bulletin boards during 2000/ 2001, making many vague, but seemingly falsifiable, predictions about events in the near future and giving an account of his supposed native time period. Whether or not John Titor was a hoax seems to have been a topic of controversy on web-based paranormal discussion boards. ...more on Wikipedia about "John Titor"
Jorn Barger (born 1953 in Yellow Springs, Ohio) is an American blogger, best known today as editor of Robot Wisdom, an influential early weblog. Barger coined the term weblog to describe the process of "logging the web" as he surfed. ...more on Wikipedia about "Jorn Barger"
:For other uses see Kibo (disambiguation). ...more on Wikipedia about "Kibo"
M Otis Beard (born July 1, 1964) is an enigmatic former(?) Kibologist noted for his online writing and pranks, particularly on Usenet. Beard has wreaked havoc in a number of Usenet newsgroups with his trolling and bizarre social experiments. He is known to use various pseudonyms and sock puppet personae, usually anagrams of his own name, such as New Age guru Ted "Rib" Amos and physicist Dr. Tom Basie, PhD. He is also rumored to be one member of the shadowy group perpetrating online disinformational performance art under the nom de guerre " Andrea Chen". ...more on Wikipedia about "M Otis Beard"
Mark Jason Dominus (born April 2, 1969) is one of the founders of Kibology. Dominus is also a famed Perl programmer. He was the managing editor of www.perl.com and was a columnist for The Perl Journal ( www.tpj.com ) for several years. Mark's other Perl-related articles have appeared in magazines such as Wired and IEEE Software. He recently published the long-awaited book Higher-Order Perl: Transforming Programs with Programs. ...more on Wikipedia about "Mark Jason Dominus" This article is made on www.shortopedia.com
Mark K. Bilbo (born October, 1961 in Texas) is an American author of technical support books and reference guides, the majority of which have been geared towards users of Apple computers. Several of his books were published as part of the Using series by Que Publishing. ...more on Wikipedia about "Mark K. Bilbo"
Mark V Shaney is a fake Usenet user whose postings were generated by using Markov chain techniques. The name is a play on the words "Markov chain". Many readers were fooled into thinking that the quirky, sometimes uncannily topical posts were written by a real person. ...more on Wikipedia about "Mark V Shaney"
Mike Godwin is an American attorney, perhaps best known on the Internet as the creator of Godwin's Law. He is currently a research fellow at Yale University. Prior to that appointment, he was legal director of Public Knowledge, a Washington, D.C.-based non-governmental organization concerned with intellectual property law. He also served as the first staff counsel for the Electronic Frontier Foundation (joining the fledgling organization in 1990) and as a policy fellow for the Center for Democracy and Technology. He is a former editor ( 1988- 89) of The Daily Texan , the student newspaper at The University of Texas at Austin. ...more on Wikipedia about "Mike Godwin"
Mike Morris, a.k.a. Michael S. Morris, is a physics professor at Butler University and a Usenetter known in that medium for lengthy discussions on rec.arts.books ( ** ), mainly concerned with his advocacy of scientific realism and Classical Liberalism, punctuated by occasional apologetics for conspicuous consumption ( ** ), as well as his advocacy of homeschooling on misc.education ( ** ), misc.education.home-school.misc ( ** ), and misc.education.home-school.christian ( ** ). Mike Morris has earned a PhD in physics from CalTech under the supervision of Kip Thorne. His most notable theoretical contribution is his pioneering analysis of time travel through traversable wormholes, coauthored in 1987 with Kip Thorne, and Uri Yertsever. Kip Thorne tells the story of this discovery in his 1995 book Black Holes and Time Warps: Einstein's Outrageous Legacy ( ** ). ...more on Wikipedia about "Mike Morris"
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