Kermit is a computer file transfer / management protocol and a set of communications software tools primarily used in the early years of personal computing in the 1980s ; it provides a consistent approach to file transfer, terminal emulation, script programming, and character set conversion across many different computer hardware and OS platforms.

Kermit can be used as a means to load boot software.

Kermit is an open protocol — anybody can base their own program on it, but some Kermit software and source code is copyright by Columbia University.

In a deleted scene from It's a Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie, Kermit reveals that J. P. has died and left the theater to the Muppets in his will.

Since the early days of The Muppet Show, Fozzie has often interacted with Kermit as he is Kermit's best friend.

", and has also had quite a bit of interaction with Kermit backstage.

Jimmy has also appeared on the Sesame Street special, Elmopalooza, singing " Caribbean Amphibian " with the popular Muppet, Kermit the Frog.

The Popular Front has been summarized by conservative historian Kermit McKenzie as

In contrast to Kermit the Frog as a news reporter for the Sesame Street News Flash, Telly also has been a roving reporter for his own segment, called Monster on the Spot.

* Another amphibian James Pond, played by Kermit the Frog, has appeared in Muppet calendars parodying James Bond movie posters.

Kermit has used his celebrity to spread positive messages in public service announcements for the National Wildlife Federation, National Parks Service, the Better World Society, and others.

Kermit Driscoll has recorded and performed with: The American Composers Orchestra, Patti Austin, Chet Baker, Bang-on-a-Can All Stars, Don Byron, John Cale, Dave Douglas, Robert Dick, Buddy Emmons, Michael Feinstein, Erik Friedlander, Bill Frisell ( a band member from 1987 to 1996 ), George Garzone, Elliot Goldenthal, Michael Gordon, Gerry Hemingway, John Hollenbeck, Wayne Horvitz, Stephan Houben, David Johansen, Russ Johnson, Ben E. King, Tony Malaby, Ben Monder, The New Jersey Symphony Orchestra, The New York Philharmonic under Kurt Masur, Philharmonia Virtuosi, The Pointer Sisters, Buddy Rich ( bass chair 1981 ), Mick Rossi, Elliott Sharp, Keely Smith, Phoebe Snow, Soldier String Quartet, Toots Thielmans, Mel Torme, Tony Trischka, Emil Viklicky, Kenny Werner and John Zorn.

Of these two, only Clifford has remained a major character, having also appeared in The Muppets at Walt Disney World ; The Muppets Celebrate Jim Henson ; an appearance on The Arsenio Hall Show ; the albums Muppet Beach Party and Kermit Unpigged ; and the feature films Muppets from Space and The Muppets ' Wizard of Oz.

Additionally, under the direction of President Kermit Bridges, the campus has continued to grow.

Yorick has been known for appearing with Kermit in a segment where Kermit sang " I've Grown Accustomed to Your Face " where Yorick tried to eat Kermit's foot.

Kermit eventually feels he is not useful to anyone and Daniel, an angel, brings this up with his Boss as they review what has gone on with Kermit in the past hours.

In the world without Kermit, Bitterman has changed the park near the Muppet Theater into a shopping center.

Kermit has Daniel restore him back to his reality and returns to the Muppet Theater.

While Kermit has Fozzie heard the rats and chickens to his bedroom, Robin approaches Kermit stating that there is a lot of them here.

Scooter tells Kermit that he has found footage of their Christmas when they were babies.

Clark's TV blooper shows always carried a dedication to " Kermit Schafer, Mr. Blooper ", and the success of Clark's program led to the development of many imitators which continue to be broadcast as of 2008, and the inclusion of " blooper reels " on DVD releases of TV shows and films has become commonplace.

Although the UCLA football program has turned out dozens of highly successful NFL players through the years, including Troy Aikman, Bob Waterfield, Mel Farr, Billy Kilmer, Jay Schroeder, Freeman McNeil, Steve Bono, John Sciarra, Jamir Miller, Donnie Edwards, Jerry Robinson, Kermit Alexander, Dave Dalby, Jonathan Ogden, Cade McNown, Carnell Lake, Ken Norton Jr, Kenny Easley, Tommy Maddox and Maurice Jones-Drew, Gary Beban was — and remains — the only Bruin to win the Heisman.

Kermit Roosevelt III has argued that " in practice ' activist ' turns out to be little more than a rhetorically charged shorthand for decisions the speaker disagrees with "; likewise, the solicitor general under George W. Bush, Theodore Olson, said in an interview on Fox News Sunday, in regards to a case for same-sex marriage he had successfully litigated, that " most people use the term ' judicial activism ' to explain decisions that they don't like.

*" The Rainbow Connection " – A song performed by Kermit the Frog in The Muppet Movie, which has had the same role for The Jim Henson Company.

Kermit and Fozzie have also frequently been paired together in countless movies, books, and specials.

The collecting of bloopers ( and the coining of the term ; the word " boner " had been the common term for such errors previously ) was popularized in America by television producer Kermit Schaefer in the 1950s.

Reportedly it was upon hearing of this mistake that Kermit Schafer was inspired to begin collecting bloopers, although the exact circumstances of the event have been debated.

Having been forced to fly in the airplane's baggage hold, Kermit, Fozzie Bear, and Gonzo are thrown out of the plane and land in Haddenham's Church End pond.

The film included a fantasy sequence in which Miss Piggy imagined what growing up with Kermit would have been like.

It was also revealed that in the world in which Kermit was never born, Robin would have been a barback at Club Dot.

The legend began as a fake segment on one of Kermit Schafer's popular " Bloopers " albums, which have been criticized for their re-creations, fabrications and lack of accuracy.

" This number has been referenced by Mel Gibson in What Women Want and by David Byrne in the live film of his band, Talking Heads, and was also parodied by Kermit the Frog in The Great Muppet Caper.

IBM mainframes used an EBCDIC character set and CP / M and DEC machines used ASCII, so conversion between the two character sets was one of the early functions built into Kermit.

For example CP / M machines used many different floppy disk formats, which meant that one machine could not normally read disks from another CP / M machine, and Kermit was used as part of a process to enable the transfer of applications and data between CP / M machines and other machines with different operating systems.

PIP with a very low baud rate ( because it had no built-in error correction ) could be used to transfer a small simple version of Kermit from one machine to another over a null modem cable, or failing that, a very very simple version of the Kermit protocol could be hand coded in binary in less than 2K using DDT, the CP / M Dynamic Debugging Tool.

Once that was done the simple version of Kermit could be used to download a fully functional version.

* Germany — such machines are often called " Was-passiert-dann-Maschine " (" What happens next machine ") for the German name of similar devices used by Kermit the Frog in the children's TV show Sesame Street.

* Lao eggplant: ( ), small and round Kermit eggplant, used in stews or eaten raw

In general, spoofing worked well with any protocol that used small packets, and thus generated lots of < tt > ACK </ tt > messages ; support for XModem and Kermit followed.

In 2001, Sesame Workshop bought the rights to all Muppets used on Sesame Street, except Kermit the Frog.

A popular early sketch that would be used often in subsequent Henson productions was " Inchworm ", in which a character, often Kermit, would nibble on what looked like a worm, but would ultimately turn out to be the tongue or nose of the monster Big V who would devour him.