User:Yuuki (Wikimedian)
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 Yuuki in 2018 | |
| Born | Yuuki Konno May 17, 1994 (age 29 years, 5 months and 27 days) Ninohe, Iwate, Japan |
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| Education and employment | |
| Education | Iwayadō Elementary School (dropped out) |
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| Website | yuukikonno.com |
Yuuki Konno[1] (金野 裕希, Konno Yūki, born May 17, 1994) is a Japanese Wikimedian.
Early life[edit]
Yuuki Konno was born on May 17, 1994 at 1:56 a.m., at Fukuoka Hospital in Ninohe, Iwate, and raised in Esashi. His mother, Yūko (née Jūmonji), was a nurse, and father, Kōji Konno, a medical assistant and later labor union activist.[2] He has an older brother, Songsknow.
Yuuki started using a computer at the age of two, when his father bought him a Panasonic U1 Pro FW-U1P609 word processor. He learned kanji through its kana–kanji conversion and read through the Great Chinese–Japanese Dictionary. He was bought a Fujitsu FMV Deskpower MV205 FMVM52053 computer at age four and played games including Puyo Puyo for Windows 95 and Diablo.[3]
Early career[edit]
In 2003, his father signed up for Yahoo! BB and Yuuki went online at age nine. He started his career as a troll on TheBBS under the handle Aku no Zurihaki[4] (悪のずりはき, lit. Zurihaki of evil).[5] He later renamed himself Seizan. He learned HTML, CSS, and JavaScript and created a browser exploit and security website.[6] Yuuki gained widespread attention in Virtual Farm (バーチャル農場, Virtual Nōjō), a browser-based farming game operated by RCC, after lying that his money was stolen by others. He became known as "The Boy Who Cried Wolf" (狼少年, Ōkami Shōnen).[7] He found cross-site scripting vulnerability on the game's site and spread an XSS worm.
In 2005 Yuuki dropped out of Iwayadō Elementary School in fifth grade.
In 2007, at age 13, Yuuki met a man named "Linux User" who taught him Debian GNU/Linux and Perl in Monachat (もなちゃと, Monachato), a metaverse based on ASCII art avatars. On September 15, 2007, Yuuki rose to stardom after launching a massive DDoS attack against Monachat under the handle Momakuru (もま☆くる).[8]
Notes[edit]
- ↑ Yuuki goes by his first name and is stylized as yuuki (ゆうき).
- ↑ His father served as chair of the Communist Party-affiliated Iwate Federation of Trade Unions (Iwate Rōren) from 2012 to 2022.
- ↑ Yuuki 2023.
- ↑ "Zurihaki" is a randomly typed string.
- ↑ Yamaarashi 2002.
- ↑ Yuuki 2004.
- ↑ Anonymous 2004.
- ↑ Desuno X2 2007.
References[edit]
- Anonymous, et al. (2004). "[Chupu] Virtual Nōjō e yōkoso! [Hikkī]" 【ﾁｭﾌﾟ】バーチャル農場へようこそ！【ﾋｯｷｰ】 [[Housewives] Welcome to Virtual Farm! [Antisocials]]. 2channel (in Japanese). Archived from the original on 2022-03-02.
- Desuno X2 (2007). "Mugen zanzō secchi de "Momakuru" tairyō hassei. 1000 nin chō!" 無限残像設置で「もま☆くる」大量発生。1000人超！ ["Momakuru" outbreak with infinite zombie installation. Over 1,000!] (in Japanese). Archived from the original on 2007-10-16.
- Yamaarashi, et al. (2002). "Muzukashii kanji, omoshiroi kanji" 難しい漢字・面白い漢字 [Difficult kanji, interesting kanji]. TheBBS (in Japanese). Archived from the original on 2004-06-21.
- Yuuki (2004). "Internet Security Laboratory" (in Japanese). Archived from the original on 2005-03-11.
- Yuuki (2023). "List of video games that yuuki has ever played".