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The Four Greatest Mysteries of the Internet - Magical Realist - Dec 16, 2016
http://junkee.com/the-best-unsolved-mysteries-on-the-internet/35874/2
"#1: The Markovian Parallax Denigrate
The oldest surviving Internet mystery is ominously called the Markovian Parallax Denigrate. It comes from a proto-Web chat community called Usenet, which was popular in the early 1990s.
In 1996, the Usenet community reported unusual spam emanating from the username Markovian Parallax Denigrate. The messages were random words and phrases strung together and distributed among the community, in a way that appeared to suggest the influence of a very human intelligence..."
RE: The Four Greatest Mysteries of the Internet - Secular Sanity - Dec 17, 2016
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_undeletion/Archive_52#Markovian_Parallax_Denigrate
That is weird, MR. Do you think it's true? It's hard to tell with so many spoofs nowadays.
RE: The Four Greatest Mysteries of the Internet - Magical Realist - Dec 17, 2016
I believe it happened. I don't know why they'd delete that from Wikipedia though. Maybe they think it's an urban legend.
Maybe the owner of Wikipedia is none other than MPD..lol!
RE: The Four Greatest Mysteries of the Internet - Secular Sanity - Dec 17, 2016
(Dec 17, 2016 04:30 AM)Magical Realist Wrote: I believe it happened. I don't know why they'd delete that from Wikipedia though. Maybe they think it's an urban legend.
Maybe the owner of Wikipedia is none other than MPD..lol!
Oh, I found #2. It's weird. I never heard about that before. Maybe C C knows something about it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cicada_3301