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If you put a billion monkeys in front of a billion typewriters typing at random, they would reproduce the entire collected works of Usenet in about ... five minutes.

If you put a billion monkeys in front of a billion typewrite

Summary

This quote humorously emphasizes the vast amount of information and noise on the internet. It suggests that even with random typing, the sheer quantity of content generated would encompass all the collected works of Usenet, an early online discussion system, in an incredibly short period of time (five minutes). The quote serves as a playful commentary on the abundance and rapidness of information creation and dissemination in the digital age.

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