Little Bobby Tables - Revision history

Maxcodes: changed "Cueball" to "Kidball"

2026-02-15T13:25:45Z

changed "Cueball" to "Kidball"

FaviFake at 13:34, 28 July 2025

2025-07-28T13:34:19Z

FaviFake at 13:31, 28 July 2025

2025-07-28T13:31:06Z

FaviFake at 13:27, 28 July 2025

2025-07-28T13:27:54Z

FaviFake: i should check

2025-02-11T18:30:00Z

i should check

FaviFake: is that his actual surname tho?

2025-02-11T18:29:40Z

is that his actual surname tho?

172.70.85.32: Returning his surname…

2025-02-11T18:06:04Z

Returning his surname…

FaviFake: we should at least use his full name first? also, not sure what similarities there are in students records and sister names. also fixed sentences

2025-02-11T15:47:37Z

we should at least use his full name first? also, not sure what similarities there are in students records and sister names. also fixed sentences

Kynde at 21:04, 10 February 2025

2025-02-10T21:04:55Z

Kynde at 21:04, 10 February 2025

2025-02-10T21:04:17Z

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 ==Appearances==
 [[File:Adult Bobby Tables.PNG|thumb|200px|Little Bobby Tables as an adult from [[884: Rogers St.]]]]
-Within the five comics he is referenced, he is only drawn three times. The first two are in the [[:Category:1337|1337 series]] where he is drawn as a Cueball-like kid. But then he also appears as a young man with long curly hair in [[884: Rogers St.]]. Here it is only the title text that reveals that this is Bobby, that, and the fact that [[Randall]] in the official transcript does not mention the gender, but only that it is a person.
+Within the five comics he is referenced, he is only drawn three times. The first two are in the [[:Category:1337|1337 series]] where he is drawn as a [[Kidball]]. But then he also appears as a young man with long curly hair in [[884: Rogers St.]]. Here it is only the title text that reveals that this is Bobby, that, and the fact that [[Randall]] in the official transcript does not mention the gender, but only that it is a person.
 Here is how he looks in that comic:

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 ==Appearances==
-[[File:Adult Bobby Tables.PNG|thumb|200px|Robert); Little Bobby Tables as an adult from [[884: Rogers St.]]]]
+[[File:Adult Bobby Tables.PNG|thumb|200px|Little Bobby Tables as an adult from [[884: Rogers St.]]]]
 Within the five comics he is referenced, he is only drawn three times. The first two are in the [[:Category:1337|1337 series]] where he is drawn as a Cueball-like kid. But then he also appears as a young man with long curly hair in [[884: Rogers St.]]. Here it is only the title text that reveals that this is Bobby, that, and the fact that [[Randall]] in the official transcript does not mention the gender, but only that it is a person.
 Here is how he looks in that comic:

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 ===Real life occurrences===
-In 2014, the Polish company <code>Dariusz Jakubowski x'; DROP TABLE users; SELECT '1</code> was founded, and it seems still active. It has been mentioned at [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8900356 Ycombinator] and [https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/5mmf4v/til_that_an_individual_in_poland_legally_renamed/ Reddit], and the company's data can be found at the [https://aplikacja.ceidg.gov.pl/ceidg/ceidg.public.ui/searchdetails.aspx?id=e82735cd-bc2b-4ac0-8bac-a1dc54d8c013 Polish Company Registration Office].
+*In 2014, the Polish company <code>Dariusz Jakubowski x'; DROP TABLE users; SELECT '1</code> was founded, and it seems still active. It has been mentioned at [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8900356 Ycombinator] and [https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/5mmf4v/til_that_an_individual_in_poland_legally_renamed/ Reddit], and the company's data can be found at the [https://aplikacja.ceidg.gov.pl/ceidg/ceidg.public.ui/searchdetails.aspx?id=e82735cd-bc2b-4ac0-8bac-a1dc54d8c013 Polish Company Registration Office].
+*In 2016, the British company <code>; DROP TABLE "COMPANIES"; --</code> was founded, and their name is still visible in the filings in [https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/10542519/filing-history Companies House]. The name is deliberately misformed (not containing a closing quote at the start) in order to avoid actual problems for data users.
-In 2016, the British company <code>; DROP TABLE "COMPANIES"; --</code> was founded, and their name is still visible in the filings in [https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/10542519/filing-history Companies House]. The name is deliberately misformed (not containing a closing quote at the start) in order to avoid actual problems for data users.
+*In 2017, a Swiss group called their book <code><script>alert("!Mediengruppe Bitnik");</script></code> to make e-commerce websites display a hackneyed pop-up as soon as the book name loads. [https://i.imgur.com/Dd4XN7d.png It immediately worked on several sites] and to this day, [https://www.tomlinsons-online.com/p-16381221-scriptalertmediengruppe-bitnikscript.aspx some websites] are still affected.
+*In 2019, a person chose a vanity license plate that said <code>NULL</code> and subsequently [https://www.wired.com/story/null-license-plate-landed-one-hacker-ticket-hell/ received thousands of dollars in fines from random vehicles] for which the license plate was unavailable. Some database programmers somewhere along the way failed to consider the difference between the string <code>NULL</code> and the value {{w|NULL}}.
-In 2017, a Swiss group called their book <code><script>alert("!Mediengruppe Bitnik");</script></code> to make e-commerce websites display a hackneyed pop-up as soon as the book name loads. [https://i.imgur.com/Dd4XN7d.png It immediately worked on several sites] and to this day, [https://www.tomlinsons-online.com/p-16381221-scriptalertmediengruppe-bitnikscript.aspx some websites] are still affected.
+*In 2020, the British corporate register [https://forum.aws.chdev.org/t/cross-site-scripting-xss-software-attack/3355/8 accepted a registration] for <code> “><SCRIPT SRC=<nowiki>H</nowiki>TTPS://MJT.XSS.HT> LTD</code>, which was soon [https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/nov/06/companies-house-forces-business-name-change-to-prevent-security-risk officially renamed] to <code>THAT COMPANY WHOSE NAME USED TO CONTAIN HTML SCRIPT TAGS LTD</code> to avoid a cross-site scripting problem.
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 :''For Little Bobby Tables's mother, see [[Mrs. Roberts]].''</noinclude>
-'''Robert'); DROP TABLE Students;--''', also known as '''Little Bobby Tables''', is a [[stick figure]] character in [[xkcd]]. He is the youngest son of elite hacker [[Mrs. Roberts]] and the younger brother of [[Elaine Roberts]]. His full name is known to cause problems with some computers: when he was first enrolled in school in [[327: Exploits of a Mom]], it exploited a vulnerability in the parsing of students' names into the school's student database. This resulted in  the school losing all the student records for the year.
+'''Robert'); DROP TABLE Students;-- Roberts''', also known as '''Little Bobby Tables''', is a [[stick figure]] character in [[xkcd]]. He is the youngest son of elite hacker [[Mrs. Roberts]] and the younger brother of [[Elaine Roberts]]. His full name is known to cause problems with some computers: when he was first enrolled in school in [[327: Exploits of a Mom]], it exploited a vulnerability in the parsing of students' names into the school's student database. This resulted in  the school losing all the student records for the year.
 ==Appearances==

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 }}
-<noinclude>:''For a list of comics, see [[:Category:Comics featuring Robert'); DROP TABLE Students;--|Comics featuring Robert'); DROP TABLE Students;--]].''
+<noinclude>:''For a list of comics, see [[:Category:Comics featuring Little Bobby Tables|Comics featuring Little Bobby Tables]].''
-:''For Robert'); DROP TABLE Students;--'s sister, see [[Help I'm trapped in a driver's license factory Elaine Roberts]].''
+:''For Little Bobby Tables's sister, see [[Elaine Roberts]].''
-:''For Robert'); DROP TABLE Students;--'s mother, see [[Mrs. Roberts]].''</noinclude>
+:''For Little Bobby Tables's mother, see [[Mrs. Roberts]].''</noinclude>
-'''Robert'); DROP TABLE Students;-- Roberts''', also known as '''Little Bobby Tables''', is a [[stick figure]] character in [[xkcd]]. He is the youngest son of elite hacker [[Mrs. Roberts]] and the younger brother of [[Help I'm trapped in a driver's license factory Elaine Roberts]]. His full name is known to cause problems with some computers. When he was first enrolled in school in [[327: Exploits of a Mom]], it exploited a vulnerability in the parsing of students' names into the school's student database resulting in the school losing all the student records for the year.
+'''Little Bobby Tables''', which is his mothers nickname for him short for '''Robert'); DROP TABLE Students;-- Roberts''', is a [[stick figure]] character in [[xkcd]]. He is the youngest son of elite hacker [[Mrs. Roberts]] and the younger brother of [[Elaine Roberts]]. His full name is known to cause problems with some computers. When he was first enrolled in school in [[327: Exploits of a Mom]], it exploited a vulnerability in the parsing of students' names into the school's student database resulting in the school losing all the student records for the year. Similarly his sisters first names are ''Help I'm trapped in a driver's license factory''.
 ==Appearances==
-[[File:Adult Bobby Tables.PNG|thumb|200px|Robert'); DROP TABLE Students;-- as an adult from [[884: Rogers St.]]]]
+[[File:Adult Bobby Tables.PNG|thumb|200px|Robert'); Little Bobby Tables as an adult Robert from [[884: Rogers St.]]]]
 Within the five comics he is referenced, he is only drawn three times. The first two are in the [[:Category:1337|1337 series]] where he is drawn as a Cueball-like kid. But then he also appears as a young man with long curly hair in [[884: Rogers St.]]. Here it is only the title text that reveals that this is Bobby, that, and the fact that [[Randall]] in the official transcript does not mention the gender, but only that it is a person.
 Here is how he looks in that comic: