In the game Zork, typing xyzzy and pressing enter produces the response: "A hollow voice says 'fool '". The command commonly produces a humorous response in other Infocom games and text adventures, leading to its usage in the title of the interactive fiction competition, the XYZZY Awards. [ citation needed] Sun Integrated Lights Out Manager 2.0 Supplement for the Sun Blade™ X6275 Server Module" (PDF). p.17 . Retrieved 2009-08-20.

Grubb, Ben (7 December 2011). "Aussies more interested in iPhone than world's disasters: Google". The Sydney Morning Herald . Retrieved 10 December 2011. a b c d e Danks, Katherine (10 August 2011). "Facebook favourite and aspiring model, Aziz 'Zyzz' Shavershian, 22, dies in Thailand sauna". The Daily Telegraph. Archived from the original on 12 August 2011 . Retrieved 14 August 2011. a b c Phillips, Liam (16 December 2011). "Death and disaster unleashed a flood of news in 2011". The Sydney Morning Herald . Retrieved 17 December 2011. Sales, Leigh (9 March 2015). "Illegal steroid demand being met by outlaw motorcycle gangs". Australian Broadcasting Corporation . Retrieved 4 June 2015. The pin-up boy for the bodybuilding crowd was Aziz Shavershian. 'Zyzz', as he was known to his legion of fans, was a suspected steroids user, while his brother had earlier pleaded guilty to possessing anabolic steroids. When booting a Cr-48 from developer mode, when the screen displays the "sad laptop" image, typing "xyzzy" produces a joke Blue Screen of Death. [7] [8]Shavershian, Aziz. "How old were you when your family moved to australia?". Formspring.me. Archived from the original on 19 February 2013 . Retrieved 4 November 2011. I can safely say that my motivation to train goes far beyond that of merely impressing people, it is derived from the feeling of having set goals and achieving them and outdoing myself in the gym. I absolutely love it, the feeling of pushing out that last rep, and getting skin tearing pumps is something I don't see myself without. [19] a b Denny, Andrew (11 August 2011). "Body Image" (Official YouTube video). Ten News. Network TEN (Australia) . Retrieved 19 December 2011.

Xyzzy has been implemented as an undocumented no-op command on several operating systems; in the 16-bit version of Data General's AOS, for example, it would typically respond "Nothing happens", just as the game did if the magic was invoked at the wrong spot or before a player had performed the action that enabled the word. The 32-bit version, AOS/VS, would respond "Twice as much happens". [5] On several computer systems from Sun Microsystems, the command "xyzzy" is used to enter the interactive shell of the U-Boot bootloader. [6] Early versions of Zenith Z-DOS (a re-branded variant of MS-DOS 1.25) had the command "xyzzy" which took a parameter of "on" or "off". Xyzzy by itself would print the status of the last "xyzzy on" or "xyzzy off" command. a b c d Whyte, Sarah (31 July 2011). "All pumped up, but tell us how?". The Sydney Morning Herald . Retrieved 5 November 2011. a b de Brito, Sam (11 August 2011). "Zyzz ripped from this life too young". The Sydney Morning Herald . Retrieved 14 August 2011.Modern usage is primarily from one of the earliest computer games, Colossal Cave Adventure, in which the idea is to explore a cave with many rooms, collecting the treasures found there. By typing "xyzzy" at the appropriate time, the player could move instantly between two otherwise distant points. As Colossal Cave Adventure was both one of the first adventure games and one of the first interactive fiction pieces, hundreds of later interactive fiction games included responses to the command "xyzzy" in tribute. [2] Olding, Rachel (7 December 2011). "Searches show our true cares". The Sydney Morning Herald . Retrieved 10 December 2011. Mills, David (28 January 2013). "Shirtless dudes tip of the iceberg at Bondi". Wentworth Courier . Retrieved 28 January 2013. Before becoming a bodybuilder, Shavershian had been described as a "skinny kid" [7] [18] and an ectomorph. [19] Once he completed secondary school, [11] inspired by his bodybuilder brother, he joined a local gym and began learning about nutrition and training, applying it to his pursuit of becoming a bodybuilder. He would spend three to four hours a day training in the gym. [19] [20] His favourite professional bodybuilders included Arnold Schwarzenegger and Frank Zane. [19]