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A blurred hand types on a laptop keyboard. Text above reads: "We've all heard that a million monkeys banging on a million typewriters will eventually reproduce the entire works of Shakespeare. Now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true." —Professor Robert Wilensky

Infinite Monkeys Meet the Internet, Shakespeare Loses

A twist on the infinite monkey theorem: the Internet proves a million monkeys on typewriters wouldn't write Shakespeare, a jab at online comments from the dial-up generation.

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A blurred hand types on a laptop keyboard. Text above reads: "We've all heard that a million monkeys banging on a million typewriters will eventually reproduce the entire works of Shakespeare. Now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true." —Professor Robert Wilensky

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