User

:

Yuuki (Wikimedian)

Yuuki

ゆ

う

き

—

Wikimedian

—

Yuuki in 2018

Born

Yuuki Konno

May 17, 1994 (age 29 years, 5 months and 29 days)

Ninohe, Iwate

, Japan

Education and employment

Education

Iwayadō Elementary School

(attended)

Contact info

Website

yuukikonno.com

(https://yuukikonno.com/)

Yuuki Konno

[1]

(

金野

裕

希

,

Konno Y

ūki

, born May 17, 1994)

is a Japanese Wikimedian.

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

.

Early life

The login screen of Monachat

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]

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

(https://web.archive.org/web/20031022181655/

http://thebbs.jp/)

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

(https://web.archive.org/web/200404070

90500/

http://www.comitia.jp/farm/)

(

バ

ー

チ

ャ

ル

農

場

,

Virtual Nōjō

), a browser-based farming game created by

RCC

,

[7]

after lying that his

money was stolen by others. He became known as

"The Boy Who Cried Wolf"

(

狼

少

年

,

Ōkami

Shōnen

).

[8]

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

(https://web.

archive.org/web/20040706041848/

http://monachat.dyndns.org/mon

achat6.html)

(

も

な

ち

ゃ

と

,

Monachato

), a

metaverse

with

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

).

[9]

1.

Yuuki goes by his first name and is stylized as

yuuki

(

ゆうき

).

2.

His father served as chair of the

Communist Party

-affiliated

Iwate Federation of Trade

Unions

(Iwate Rōren) from 2012 to 2022.

3.

Yuuki 2023

.

4.

"Zurihaki" is a randomly typed string of letters.

5.

Yamaarashi 2002

.

6.

Yuuki 2004

.

7.

Wada 2007

.

8.

Anonymous 2004

.

9.

Desuno X2 2007

.

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]]

(https://web.ar

chive.org/web/20220302115233/https://ex2.5ch.net/test/read.cgi/net/1081471803/)

.

2channel

(in Japanese). Archived from

the original

(https://ex2.5ch.net/test/read.cgi/net/1081

471803/)

on 2022-03-02.

Early career

Notes

References

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!]

(https://web.archive.org/web/20071016045306/http://myho

me.cururu.jp/tahcanom/blog/article/81001484112)

(in Japanese). Archived from

the original

(http://myhome.cururu.jp/tahcanom/blog/article/81001484112)

on 2007-10-16.

Wada, Takashi (2007). "Space of communications through the on-line games: case study of

"Virtual Farm

"

"

オンラインゲームを

介

した

コミュニケーション

の

空

間

:

「

バーチャル

農

場

」

を

事

例

として

.

Geographical Sciences

(in Japanese) (

The Japanese Society for

Geographical Sciences

)

62

(4): 237–257.

doi

:

10.20630/chirikagaku.62.4_237

(https://dx.doi.

org/10.20630%2Fchirikagaku.62.4_237)

.

Yamaarashi, et al. (2002).

"Muzukashii kanji, omoshiroi kanji"

難

しい

漢

字

‧

面

白

い

漢

字

[Difficult kanji, interesting kanji]

(https://web.archive.org/web/20040621193632/http://languag

e.dot.thebbs.jp/1035980740.html)

.

TheBBS

(in Japanese). Archived from

the original

(http://l

anguage.dot.thebbs.jp/1035980740.html)

on 2004-06-21.

Yuuki (2004).

"Internet Security Laboratory"

インターネット‧セキュリテ

ィ‧

研

究

所

(https://

web.archive.org/web/20050311192522/http://www.geocities.jp/xxwnt853/top.html)

(in

Japanese). Archived from

the original

(http://www.geocities.jp/xxwnt853/top.html)

on 2005-

03-11.

Yuuki (2023).

"List of video games that yuuki has ever played"

(https://docs.google.com/spre

adsheets/d/1nQhZf3Hvb5aZcb9PX_OdEJ7FyCId9r6tMXeBQ6hubnU/edit)

.

Official website

(https://yuukikonno.com/)

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