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A later article on the subject published by '']'' proposes the event only became a mystery due to later media coverage, having not been widely reported prior to the 2012 ''Daily Dot'' article.<ref name="Paul">{{cite web|last1=Paul |first1=Andrew |title=Need a distraction? Help solve the Internet's oldest mystery, Markovian Parallax Denigrate |url=https://news.avclub.com/need-a-distraction-help-solve-the-internets-oldest-mys-1842292578 |website=AV Club |accessdate=23 September 2020}}</ref> A later article on the subject published by '']'' proposes the event only became a mystery due to later media coverage, having not been widely reported prior to the 2012 ''Daily Dot'' article.<ref name="Paul">{{cite web|last1=Paul |first1=Andrew |title=Need a distraction? Help solve the Internet's oldest mystery, Markovian Parallax Denigrate |url=https://news.avclub.com/need-a-distraction-help-solve-the-internets-oldest-mys-1842292578 |website=AV Club |accessdate=23 September 2020}}</ref>

The YouTuber Barely Sociable made a video about this topic in 2020, debunking popular theories and misinformation about the messages. Among the findings in the video was that the spam was probably restricted primarily to very few christian groups, suggesting that it was simply a troll attacking christian forums.<ref>{{Citation|title=Solving The Internet's Oldest Mystery|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vboQOQwifwg|language=en|access-date=2021-03-02}}</ref>


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Mysterious Usenet posts

Markovian Parallax Denigrate is a series of hundreds of messages posted to Usenet in 1996. The messages, which appear to be gibberish, were all posted with the subject line "Markovian parallax denigrate".

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. In 2012, Kevin Morris of The Daily Dot referred to the messages as "the Internet’s oldest and weirdest mystery". It has also been described as "one of the first great mysteries of the internet".

In 2016, Susan Lindauer was mistakenly identified as a possible source of these posts; when contacted, she denied being the author. 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. Proposed explanations for the texts include an early experimental chat bot or text generator, an internet troll or prankster posting forum spam, or a programmer experimenting with Markov chains.

A later article on the subject published by The A.V. Club proposes the event only became a mystery due to later media coverage, having not been widely reported prior to the 2012 Daily Dot article.

Example

This seemingly nonsensical message was posted to the board "alt.religion.christian.boston-church" in 1996:

jitterbugging McKinley Abe break Newtonian inferring caw update Cohen air collaborate rue sportswriting rococo invocate tousle shadflower Debby Stirling pathogenesis escritoire adventitious novo ITT most chairperson Dwight Hertzog different pinpoint dunk McKinley pendant firelight Uranus episodic medicine ditty craggy flogging variac brotherhood Webb impromptu file countenance inheritance cohesion refrigerate morphine napkin inland Janeiro nameable yearbook hark

See also

References

  1. Dewey, Caitlin (2 May 2014). "Five of the Internet's eeriest, unsolved mysteries". The Washington Post. Retrieved 6 May 2021.
  2. ^ Förtsch, Michael (November 25, 2016). "Sieben ungelöste Rätsel des Internets" [Seven Unsolved Internet Mysteries]. Wired.de (in German). Retrieved 6 May 2021.
  3. ^ Grundhauser, Eric. "The Gibberish That Sparked One of the Internet's Oldest Unsolved Mysteries". Atlas Obscura. Retrieved 23 September 2020.
  4. ^ Morris, Kevin (November 2, 2012). "The Markovian Parallax Denigrate: Unraveling the Internet's oldest and weirdest mystery". The Daily Dot. Retrieved 10 September 2017.
  5. Privalov, Alexander (August 24, 2017). "Краткий курс истории спама". Popmech.ru. Retrieved 10 September 2017.
  6. Paul, Andrew. "Need a distraction? Help solve the Internet's oldest mystery, Markovian Parallax Denigrate". AV Club. Retrieved 23 September 2020.
  7. ^ Chris Brokerage (5 August 1996). "Markovian parallax denigrate". alt.religion.christian.boston-church – via Google Groups.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
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