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Re: Monkeys on typewriters or people on keyboards?
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lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.off-topic.fun
Date: 
Sun, 19 Mar 2000 03:54:14 GMT
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lar@SAYNOTOSPAMvoyager.net
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The way I heard it was:

"It is said that an infinite number of monkeys at keyboards will
eventually produce great works of literature. But now that we have the
internet, we know that is not the case."

--
Larry Pieniazek - lpieniazek@mercator.com - http://my.voyager.net/lar
http://www.mercator.com. Mercator, the e-business transformation company
fund Lugnet(tm): http://www.ebates.com/ ref: lar, 1/2 $$ to lugnet.

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  Monkeys on typewriters or people on keyboards?
 
Sometimes I wonder about those monkeys on the typewriters (1), and how similar that is to spamming. One of the stories relating to that theory, is that if you put those said 6 monkeys on typewriters, they'll write every book in the Great Library... (...) (25 years ago, 18-Mar-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.off-topic.fun)

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