Jay Maynard (born July 27, 1960) is an American computer programmer, system administrator and the volunteer project maintainer for Hercules, a free emulator of IBM mainframe hardware.

Maynard created a revealing electroluminescent costume, inspired by the film Tron, that he could wear at the science fiction convention Penguicon in 2004.

His page of photos quickly gained a lot of attention on the Internet, after it was posted on Slashdot[2] and Fark.

[3] In it, Maynard appears alongside several other Internet celebrities, including Leslie Hall and Randy Constan.

His likeness appeared alongside those of such other Internet celebrities as Gary Brolsma, Star Wars Kid, Chris Crocker, and Tay Zonday.