Wednesday, May 14, 2014

What I have learned on the internet: A million monkeys on a million type writers will not recreate hamlet

Does anyone remember hearing the quote that said if a million monkeys banging on a million type writers that they would eventually recreate hamlet? This sounded like a solid idea at the time, and then the internet came along. For the first time anyone could post anything! (Yay, human achievements!) We are going to discover new things! We are going to take the next step in technology and science! Well this all as fine and well but lets just think about it. The people of the internet have come up with memes, the annoying orange and rick roll....... I don't think we have been using the internet all this well. But okay most of us know the internet is full of idiots and its stupid trying to do anything really serious that effects a lot of people.... Well apparently not everyone does.
Let me sum up my thesis in one word
Tumblr
Tumblr was created by David Karp in 2006 and it was meant to be a short-form blogging site. So basically is a blog sight like this, but for people who just want to create short posts about things. As of May 1m 2014, 91 million posts are being made a day. That is a lot of posts! Essentially now we have one million humans banging on keyboards so we should see some great human achievements right? ……. Sigh
 Well somewhere between 2006 and present day something went wrong. Tumblr went from a somewhat serious blogging website to this……
And this post about dreams
and this lovely post
This post about wikipedia 
And finally these two posts that sum up tumblr perfectly


So thinking about it now, no, a million monkeys on a million type writers won't recreate hamlet.  With a little help though, they might be able to recreate Twilight...... And I just lost all my Twilight readers........ But I don't care.