ABSTRACT
There was a notion, when the Internet was first gaining con-sumer mindshare, that with it the infinite monkey theorem would be borne out much faster than had been previously thought. The theorem, developed by Èmile Borel, posited that a monkey randomly hitting keys on a typewriter would, over an infinite period of time, almost surely produce a work of Shakespeare. The capacity of the Internet was akin to multiplying the monkey by a million times; the underlying structure and massive scale of the web would enable anything to be created and described.
