The Four Greatest Mysteries of the Internet

**Magical Realist** · (This post was last modified: Dec 16, 2016 09:15 PM by Magical Realist.)

http://junkee.com/the-best-unsolved-myst...et/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..."

**Secular Sanity** · Dec 17, 2016 03:22 AM

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:..._Denigrate

That is weird, MR. Do you think it's true? It's hard to tell with so many spoofs nowadays.

**Magical Realist** · (This post was last modified: Dec 17, 2016 04:31 AM by Magical Realist.)

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!

**Secular Sanity** · (This post was last modified: Dec 17, 2016 04:51 AM by Secular Sanity.)

(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

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