And just who is this little, uh... fellow, and where have we seen him before?
For the answer we have to travel back in cybertime, as well as cyberspace, to the early days of the Web and the first thrilling Argon Zark! adventure: "Into the Bowels of the Information Organism, or How Can You Be in 27,000 Places at Once When You're Not Anywhere at All?"
Here's a 10 page excerpt from that story, the last two pages of which include the scene where we first encountered this character.
Here's a link just to those two pages where we met the little, uh... fellow for the first time...