<s>
The	O
Internet	O
Oracle	O
(	O
historically	O
known	O
as	O
The	O
Usenet	B-Application
Oracle	O
)	O
is	O
an	O
effort	O
at	O
collective	O
humor	O
in	O
a	O
pseudo-Socratic	O
question-and-answer	O
format	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
Usenet	B-Application
Oracle	O
has	O
pondered	O
your	O
question	O
deeply	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Many	O
of	O
the	O
Oracularities	O
contain	O
Zen	B-Application
references	O
and	O
witty	O
wordplay	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
A	O
*	O
ZOT*	O
(	O
administered	O
with	O
the	O
Staff	O
of	O
Zot	O
,	O
see	O
LART	B-Application
)	O
is	O
earned	O
when	O
the	O
Oracle	O
is	O
irritated	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
"	O
,	O
which	O
in	O
the	O
early	O
days	O
of	O
the	O
Usenet	B-Application
Oracle	O
,	O
was	O
over-asked	O
to	O
the	O
point	O
of	O
being	O
a	O
cliché	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
These	O
include	O
the	O
worthless	O
High	O
Priest	O
Zadoc	O
(	O
sometimes	O
with	O
an	O
assistant	O
named	O
Kendai	O
)	O
,	O
the	O
Oracle	O
's	O
girlfriend	O
Lisa	O
the	O
Net.Sex.Goddess	O
,	O
an	O
assortment	O
of	O
deities	O
,	O
and	O
the	O
caveman	B-Algorithm
figure	O
Og	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
These	O
are	O
posted	O
to	O
the	O
Usenet	B-Application
newsgroup	O
rec.humor.oracle	B-Architecture
,	O
the	O
Oracle	O
website	O
,	O
and	O
also	O
distributed	O
via	O
e-mailing	O
list	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
There	O
is	O
a	O
usenet	B-Application
group	O
,	O
,	O
which	O
is	O
populated	O
by	O
a	O
variety	O
of	O
participants	O
in	O
the	O
Internet	O
Oracle	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
1976	O
,	O
he	O
wrote	O
one	O
which	O
ran	O
at	O
the	O
Harvard	O
Science	O
Center	O
's	O
Unix	B-Application
time-sharing	O
system	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
He	O
then	O
distributed	O
the	O
program	O
via	O
the	O
PSL	O
Games	O
Tape	O
to	O
Unix	B-Application
installations	O
around	O
the	O
world	O
until	O
1988	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Huttar	O
posted	O
the	O
source	O
code	O
to	O
the	O
Usenet	B-Application
group	O
alt.sources	O
in	O
August	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Steve	O
Kinzler	O
,	O
who	O
was	O
a	O
graduate	O
student	O
and	O
system	B-Application
administrator	I-Application
at	O
Indiana	O
University	O
,	O
downloaded	O
Huttar	O
's	O
code	O
that	O
same	O
year	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
He	O
deployed	O
it	O
as	O
the	O
Usenet	B-Application
Oracle	O
on	O
a	O
university	O
server	O
and	O
it	O
became	O
popular	O
.	O
</s>
