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Jeff K.
The spiritual successor to B1FF and the
archetype of script kiddies. Jeff K. is a sixteen-year-old
suburbanite who fancies himself a "l33t haX0r", although his
knowledge of computers seems to be limited to the procedure for
getting Quake up and running. His Web page
http://www.somethingawful.com/jeffk features a number of
hopelessly naive articles, essays, and rants, all filled with the
kind of misspellings, studlycaps, and number-for-letter
substitutions endemic to the script kiddie and warez d00dz
communities. Jeff's offerings, among other things, include hardware
advice (such as "AMD VERSIS PENTIUM" and "HOW TO OVARCLOAK YOUR
COMPUTAR"), his own Quake clan (Clan 40 OUNSCE), and his own comic
strip (Wacky Fun Computar Comic Jokes).
Like B1FF, Jeff K. is (fortunately) a hoax. Jeff K. was created by
internet game journalist Richard "Lowtax" Kyanka, whose web site
Something Awful (http://www.somethingawful.com) highlights
unintentionally humorous news items and Web sites, as a parody of
the kind of teenage luser who infests Quake servers, chat
rooms, and other places where computer enthusiasts congregate. He
is well-recognized in the PC game community and his influence has
spread to hacker fora like Slashdot as well.
--The Jargon File version 4.3.1, ed. ESR, autonoded by rescdsk.