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https://libraryofbabel.info/ https://libraryofbabel.info/

• TurkishPoptart 4y ago
  I have no clue what's going on here. Context?
  • KMnO4 4y ago
    It’s based off a 1941 short story in which there’s a library of books which hold every possible combination of letters. The idea is that every story, song, piece of knowledge, etc are in there if you know where to find them. (And also, every erroneous fact, false story, etc)
• abetusk 4y ago
  "The Library of Babel" by Jorge Luis Borges [0]. Borges was a direct influence on William Gibson most notably (to me at least) seen with the short story "The Aleph" by Borges [1]. Gibson had an "aleph" device simulating reality in "Mona Lisa Overdrive" (which many of the characters mispronounced as "LF" device). [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Library_of_Babel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Library_of_Babel [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Aleph_(short_story) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Aleph_(short_story)
• kristopolous 4y ago
  There's another compsci tower of babel from 1969: https://archive.org/details/TNM_Programming_Languages_history_and_fundamental_20171115_0058/mode/1up https://archive.org/details/TNM_Programming_Languages_histor... On the right. It's also the cover art for the book Direct: https://ia800101.us.archive.org/BookReader/BookReaderImages.php?zip=/14/items/TNM_Programming_Languages_history_and_fundamental_20171115_0058/TNM_Programming_Languages_history_and_fundamental_20171115_0058_jp2.zip&file=TNM_Programming_Languages_history_and_fundamental_20171115_0058_jp2/TNM_Programming_Languages_history_and_fundamental_20171115_0058_0000.jp2&id=TNM_Programming_Languages_history_and_fundamental_20171115_0058&scale=1&rotate=0 https://ia800101.us.archive.org/BookReader/BookReaderImages....