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{{creator|wppage=James Parry}}
[[File:Kiboins.gif|frame|One of the many places Kibo has been seen.]]
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[http://www.kibo.com/ James "Kibo" Parry] was one of the first "net.celebrities", known for his machine-assisted ubiquity in [[UseNet]] and the surrealist manner in which he responded to virtually every message in which he found an instance of his nickname. His apparent omnipresence throughout the Net inspired the creation of the newsgroup alt.religion.kibology.
Beyond this, he's probably best known for his 1992 "HappyNet Proclamation", which amid a flurry of in-jokes and
As of 2006 Kibo estimated that in the course of his life on the Net, he'd written and posted nearly eight million words of original content.
Some sample Kibo pronouncements:
* "Usenet is William Shatner and George Bush [[Freaky Friday Flip|trading places]] after [[Lightning Can Do Anything|being hit by lightning]]."
* "Usenet asks no questions, but gets many answers; Usenet is the biggest pencil in the world. Usenet is a sword whose blade is in Schenectady and whose handle is everywhere."
* "Usenet is Frosty the Snowman
* "Usenet is sans-serif but oblique."
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* "What would happen if you ran up to [[Godwin's Law|Hitler and mentioned Usenet?]]"
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