User:Nerd42

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"Nerd42 likes talking about himself in the third person!"

~ Nerd42 on WikiQuote

Nerd 42 {3 * (1 + 3 + 3 + 7) = 42} is the onilne persona of an individual or group of individuals who have haunted the internet since sometime around 2002. Nerd42 claims to be one person, male, a United States citizen and between 18 and 21 years of age. He tries to maintain a certain degree of anonymity for several reasons, which include because it makes him seem more mysterious (and thus more cool) and because he does not want people he talks to on the internet to contact him in real life. In other words, what happens on the internet stays on the internet.

He has (or claims to have) some friends in real life whom he allows to contact him while in his online persona whose onilne names are "Knight", "Aargain", (whose name was initially a misspelling of Aragorn but deliberately kept) and Buster. (who apparently has a knack for forgetting passwords) These aliases are thought by some to be "sock puppets" - duplicate aliases donned by Nerd42 himself in order to fool people into thinking he has friends. He has consistantly denied this. If his own statements are true, this indicates that while his online life is not allowed to spill over into the real world, his real world life can sometimes spill over onto the internet.

[edit] Projects

Nerd42 is involved in many projects, often starting them and not finishing them.

[edit] Accomplishments

[edit] Writing

This article.
Various opinion pieces on http://nerd42nation.blogspot.com/
The Matrix parody "The Matrix; Path of the Two".
An h2g2 Edited Guide article about Uncyclopedia.

[edit] Collaborative efforts

[edit] Wikipedia articles

[edit] Fiction Wikia articles

A Twilight Zone fanfic.
The Chronicles of Charn (a Chronicles of Narnia fanfic)

[edit] Other wiki articles

Some Uncyclopedia articles.
The Cursed Wiki Article.

[edit] Fantasy/RPG

Nerd42 is the founder of the Silver Sword RPG and claims to have made up the entire Silver Sword RPG universe, relying on advice from Knight and Aargain and on inspiration from previous works of SFF.

[edit] Programming

Some amateur hobby programming in QBASIC and C++. See Tripod.
Several gadgets written in Jotacode for Nerd42's area on ifMUD.
A rom hack of Super Mario Bros 1 for the NES entitled Super Clinton Bros in which Mario and Luigi are replaced by Bill Clinton and Algore. This is contained in a file called "CLINTON.NES".

[edit] Animations

Some Matrix avatars. (64x64 pixel animated GIFs)

[edit] Works-in-progress

The Matrix fanfic "The Matrix; Patriot's Dream".
The Square-Trix Project.
A novel or series of novels based on Nerd42's Silver Sword RPG universe.

[edit] Abandoned projects

"Club Zork", an h2g2 club for INFOCOM fans.
http://nerd42nation.blogspot.com/
A graphical QBASIC RPG.

[edit] Suspended projects

A problematic but working hack of the ifMUD source called "MUD42" with the ability to run under Windows XP.
A virtual h2g2 radio talk show on the 42FM Debate Channel.
Some interactive fiction.

[edit] Future projects

Macromedia Flash movies, possibly including a Homestar Runner fan cartoon.
Some video game music remixes.
A highly sophisticated communications and user-generated content management system for the web possibly written in php.
Some interactive fiction.

[edit] Biography

[edit] Real life

Nerd42 is very secretive about his offline counterpart, but has revealed/claimed the following information to be true:

He is a male United States citizen. (based on his own statements)
He is over 18 and under 21. This is implied by his claim to have been a first-time voter for George W. Bush in the 2004 Presidential Elections.
He is a member of an RLDS Restoration Branch. (based on his own statements and knowledge of Restoration doctrine and current events)
He has earned the Eagle Scout award in the Boy Scouts of America program and has been an employee of that organization in the past.
He lives "north of Texas, south of Canada, east of Washington DC and west of California" and in the "heartland of America".
He is currently an unemployed college student.

[edit] Online history

For a complete list of Nerd42's user pages, see Meta.

Nerd42 has a registered name on many sites, too numerous to mention. Some he visits on a daily basis, some weekly and some monthly. The primary site he has been a member of the longest is h2g2 where he first chose his alias.

The first instance of Nerd42 may have been on a discussion board at CoolReading.com, now closed down. Soon after that, and after reading The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy for the first time, he joined h2g2, a collaboratively written encyclopedia project and online community founded by Douglas Adams. His primary homepage exists there to this day. At first, he called himself "Gandark" after his RPG character, but finally switched to his desired alias after he made sure there were no other "Nerd42s" on h2g2.

Since then, Nerd42 has come and gone on countless web sites, and not always under the name "Nerd42."

[edit] Other screen names

For a list of Nerd42's nicknames on h2g2, see this page

"Nerd42" is Nerd42's primary screen name.

"nerd4242" is Nerd42's screen name on Yahoo Messenger and AIM.
"Dr. Nerd42" is an alternate screen name for Nerd42 when he is pretending to be a psychologist, usually on IRC channels. This is usually commenced with an announcement, in allcaps, that "THE DOCTOR IS IN." (a Charlie Brown / Lucy van Pelt reference) He will then proceed to ask questions and give (sometimes comical) answers attempting to find the "root of the problem" even when it turns out that there is no problem to solve. This behavior is inspired by and supposed to parody Dr. Laura Schlessinger. Dr. Nerd42 says his partner is ELIZA, and often protests, "I am a good doctor!"
"MC42" and "DJ42" are Nerd42's names as a musical performer.

"Gandark Underhill" is the name of Nerd42's main RPG character. For more information, see Tripod.

"Gandark42" is Nerd42's screen name on RuneScape.

"Patriot" is the name of a serial killer from Jefferson Scott's techno-thriller novel "Virtu@lly Eliminated" - and is a secondary alias sometimes used by Nerd42. (such as on MatrixMania.com) It has the advantage of not revealing anything about the person who uses it except that they think they are a patriot.
- "Randall Stevens" is a ficticious name from The Shawshank Redemption of a man "who only exists on paper." This name was used as the real name of the main character "Patriot" in Nerd42's Matrix fanfic, and has been adopted by Nerd42 at different times as his "real" name, while he does not claim that it actually is. It may or may not actually be Nerd42's real name.
"Pyro" is Nerd42's screen name on ifMUD.
"Mr. Fixit" is an alternate screen name used by Nerd42 in some first-person shooters such as Starsiege Tribes He often functions as an engineer, repairing and maintaining others health and battle equipment. "Mr. Fixit" often advocates/supports any coordinated strategy his team plans during FPS games.
Nerd42 is currently seeking a new username he can use as a Macromedia Flash animator in the Clock Crew.

[edit] Screen name translations

"Nerd43" is sometimes adopted by Nerd42 on special occasions, such as when people bother him about changing his nickname and on April Fools Day.
"24dreN" is Nerd42's user name spelled backwards. Dren ("Nerd" spelled backwards) is also the name of a NPC in Nerd42's "Silver Sword" RPG universe.
|\|3rd42 is Nerd42's screen name written in leet, which then translates back into Engrish as Nerda2.
"Areq42" is Nerd42's screen name written in ROT13.
"4e 65 72 64 34 32" is Nerd42's screen name converted to hexidecimal.
"01001110 01100101 01110010 01100100 00110100 00110010" is Nerd42's screen name written in binary code.
"-. . .-. -.. ....- ..---" is Nerd42's screen name in morse code.