"PFY" and "Pimply-Faced Youth" redirect here. For other uses, see PFY (disambiguation).
The Bastard Operator From Hell (BOFH) is a fictional rogue computer operator created by Simon Travaglia, who takes out his anger on users (who are "lusers" to him) and others who pester him with their computer problems, uses his expertise against his enemies and manipulates his employer.[1][2]
Several people have written stories about BOFHs, but only those by Simon Travaglia are considered canonical.[2]
The BOFH stories were originally posted in 1992 to Usenet by Travaglia, with some being reprinted in Datamation.[3][4] Since 2000 they have been published regularly in The Register (UK).[5] Several collections of the stories have been published as books.
By extension, the term is also used to refer to any system administrator who displays the qualities of the original.[1][2]
The early accounts of the BOFH took place in a university; later the scenes were set in an office workplace. In 2000 (BOFH 2k), the BOFH and his pimply-faced youth (PFY) assistant moved to a new company.
^ abPaul, Ryan (2008-09-08). "The BOFH lives: 88% of IT workers would steal data if fired". Ars Technica. Retrieved 2014-12-31.
^ abcRaymond, Eric S. (1996). The New Hacker's Dictionary. The MIT Press. p. 80. ISBN 978-0-262-68092-9.
^Travaglia, Simon. "The Bastard Operator from Hell Official Archive". Datamation Magazine. Archived from the original on 2015-12-05.
^Network Week, London APT Data Services, 1995–1999
^Simon Travaglia, The Register, accessed 18 January 2013
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