| — Wikimedian — | |
 Yuuki in 2018 | |
| Born | Yuuki Konno May 17, 1994 (age 30 years, 6 months and 6 days) Ninohe, Iwate, Japan |
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| Education and employment | |
| Education | Iwayadō Elementary School (dropped out) |
| Contact info | |
| Website | yuukikonno.com |
Yuuki Konno[1] (金野 裕希, Konno Yūki, born May 17, 1994) is a Japanese Wikimedian.
Early life
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 Konno (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. At age four, he was given a Fujitsu FMV Deskpower MV205 FMVM52053 computer and played games including Puyo Puyo for Windows 95 and Diablo I.[3]
Early career
In 2003, Yuuki went online at age nine when his father signed up for Yahoo! BB. He began his career as a troll on TheBBS under the handle Aku no Zurihaki[4] (悪のずりはき, lit. Zurihaki of evil) and later Seizan.[5] Learning HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, he 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 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 2007, at age 13, Yuuki met a hacker Linux User who taught him Debian GNU/Linux and Perl in Monachat (もなちゃと, Monachato), a metaverse with ASCII art avatars. Yuuki rose to stardom after launching a massive DDoS attack against Monachat under the handle Momakuru (もま☆くる).[9]
In 2008, he created a Twitter account and began posting his thoughts every second, advocating its use as a thinking tool. In 2010, he founded the field of mathematics in anime after watching Baka to Test to Shōkanjū.
Notes
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ Wada 2007.
- ↑ Anonymous 2004.
- ↑ Desuno X2 2007.
References
- 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.
- 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.
- 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" インターネット・セキュリティ・研究所 (in Japanese). Archived from the original on 2005-03-11.
- Yuuki (2023). "List of video games Yuuki has ever played".