February 22, 2001

10:48 AM

Orange Conesthe Virtual Reality tour!
I haven't laughed this hard for a long time! Make sure you read all of the cone pages.
posted by bytecode (5 comments total)

Just what exactly is going on in this one?
posted by quirked at 11:34 AM on February 22, 2001

Isn't "Kibo" Swahili for "I have entirely too much time on my hands"?
posted by jpoulos at 11:44 AM on February 22, 2001

James "Kibo" Parry is one of the original Internet rock-stars, IMHO. When I first got access to Usenet via a UNIX shell account at uni, he was very active on the newsgroups.

One of his tricks was that any time "Kibo" was mentioned in any newsgroup, he would always reply. Today, with search engines everywhere, the ability to pull a random string of characters out of a giant data feed is not terribly impressive, but it was at the time.

So yes, I think he always had too much time on his hands :)
posted by kaefer at 2:13 PM on February 22, 2001

As further proof that kibo has too much time on his hands:

The WebTV version of his site.

DON'T CLICK unless you're prepared for your browser to crash, like mine did. My favorite part of the source html:

<br clear="John Travolta">


posted by pnevares at 3:20 PM on February 22, 2001

That is some seriously messed up stuff.
posted by Dreama at 7:27 PM on February 22, 2001