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Strange 1996 "Markovian Parallax Denigrate" Usenet posts remain a mystery

Ellsworth Toohey
Dec 12, 2024
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A Markovian Parallax Denigrate message posted to the board

In August 1996, hundreds of puzzling messages flooded Usenet newsgroups, each bearing the cryptic subject line "Markovian Parallax Denigrate." The posts contained seemingly random strings of English words, and to this day no one has figured out what they mean.

These messages appeared across variou…

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