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TYPING MONKEY FULL
1979 – Chapter XXIII of The Neverending Story by Michael Ende describes a city full of people that have lost their memories, overseen by a monkey.Lafferty, "Been a Long, Long Time" ( Fantastic, December), tells the story of an angel who is punished by having to supervise (for trillions of years) randomly typing monkeys who are attempting to produce a perfect copy of the collected works of Shakespeare. 1969 - "Uncollected Works", a short story by Lin Carter, describes a machine that rapidly simulates the infinite monkeys with the result that it generates the sum total of human writing from first principles, and onward into the future.The rich man was amused to see unexpurgated versions of Samuel Pepys' diaries, of which he owned only a copy of a bowdlerised edition. His monkeys immediately set to work typing, without error, classics of fiction and nonfiction. 1940 – In "Inflexible Logic" by Russell Maloney, a short story that appeared in The New Yorker, the protagonist felt that his wealth put him under an obligation to support the sciences, and so he tested the theory.1939 – Jorge Luis Borges' essay – “ The Total Library”.1931 – James Jean’s book – The Mysterious Universe.1928 – Arthur Eddington’s book – The Nature of the Physical World.1913 – Émile Borel’s essay – “Mécanique Statistique et Irréversibilité”.The initial timeline starts with some of the early history following Borel, and the later timelines record examples of the history, from the stories by Maloney and Borges in the 1940s, up to the present day. The timelines are not comprehensive – instead, they document notable examples of references to the theorem appearing in various media. The following thematic timelines are based on these existing collections. Several collections of cultural references to the theorem have been published. Today, popular interest in the typing monkeys is sustained by numerous appearances in literature, television and radio, music, and the Internet, as well as graphic novels and stand-up comedy routines. Another study of the history was published in the introduction to a study published in 2007 by Terry Butler, "Monkeying Around with Text".In 2007, the theorem was listed by Wired magazine in a list of eight classic thought experiments.In 2003, an Arts Council funded experiment involving real monkeys and a computer keyboard received widespread press coverage.
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In 2002, a Washington Post article said: "Plenty of people have had fun with the famous notion that an infinite number of monkeys with an infinite number of typewriters and an infinite amount of time could eventually write the works of Shakespeare".They all expand on the theory that if an infinite number of monkeys were left to bang on an infinite number of typewriters, sooner or later they would accidentally reproduce the complete works of William Shakespeare (or even just one of his sonnets)." In their introduction to that paper, Hoffmann and Hofmann stated: "The Internet is home to a vast assortment of quotations and experimental designs concerning monkeys and typewriters. The enduring, widespread and popular nature of the knowledge of the theorem was noted in a 2001 paper, "Monkeys, Typewriters and Networks – the Internet in the Light of the Theory of Accidental Excellence".The Topos of the Monkeys and the Typewriters". The Hoffmann and Hofmann paper (2001) referenced a collection compiled by Jim Reeds, titled "The Parable of the Monkeys – a.k.a.The history of the imagery of "typing monkeys" dates back at least as far as Émile Borel's use of the metaphor in his essay in 1913, and this imagery has recurred many times since in a variety of media.