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Markovian Parallax Denigrate is a series[1] of hundreds of spam messages posted to Usenet in 1996.[2] The posts are often mentioned in conjunction with other bizarre and/or unsolved internet mysteries, such as Sad Satan, Cicada 3301, the Publius Enigma, and Unfavorable Semicircle.[citation needed] In 2012, Kevin Morris of The Daily Dot referred to the messages as "the Internet’s oldest and weirdest mystery", though Morris himself later stated in the same article that the messages were "soon mostly forgotten, washed away in the deluge of information", only getting noticed a decade after.[3]

In 2016, Susan Lindauer was mistakenly identified as a possible source of these posts; when contacted, she denied being the author and stated she had "never heard of it".[2] The Daily Dot article covering the event states that an e-mail account belonging to a University of Wisconsin at Stevens Point student coincidentally named Susan Lindauer was spoofed to cover the identity of the poster.[3] Proposed explanations for the texts include an early experimental chat bot or text generator,[4] an internet troll or prankster posting forum spam,[2] or a programmer experimenting with Markov chains.[3]

A later article on the subject published by AV Club proposes the event only became a "mystery" due to later media coverage, having not been widely noted prior to the 2012 Daily Dot article.[5]

See also

References

  1. ^ Dewey, Caitlin (May 2, 2014). "Five of the Internet's eeriest, unsolved mysteries". Washington Post. Retrieved 10 September 2017.
  2. ^ a b c GRUNDHAUSER, ERIC. "The Gibberish That Sparked One of the Internet's Oldest Unsolved Mysteries". Atlas Obscura. Retrieved 23 September 2020.
  3. ^ a b c Morris, Kevin (November 2, 2012). "The Markovian Parallax Denigrate: Unraveling the Internet's oldest and weirdest mystery". The Daily Dot. Retrieved 10 September 2017.
  4. ^ Förtsch, Michael (November 25, 2016). "Sieben ungelöste Rätsel des Internets". Wired.de. Retrieved 10 September 2017.
  5. ^ Paul, Andrew. "Need a distraction? Help solve the Internet's oldest mystery, Markovian Parallax Denigrate". AV Club. Retrieved 23 September 2020.
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