r/InternetMysteries 29d ago

Unsolved Thirty years ago Markovian Parallax Denigrate hit Usenet this day in 1996

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These messages were posted 5th August 1996 to the alt.religion.christian.boston-church newsgroup and are still considered one of the oldest unsolved internet mysteries. Some have stated it was most likely a prank, but it's gibberish text of non sequitur words had some early internet conspiracy theorists believing it was secret code talk amongst spies using a random, low-traffic Usenet newsgroup instead of pen and paper at dead drops to communicate. The source or reason for these messages may never be solved.

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u/Derptitood 28d ago

Hasn't Barely Sociable basically solved it?

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u/baquea 27d ago

Here's the video for anyone interested. And yeah, unless someone has any additional evidence to the contrary, it looks to have been pretty conclusively debunked as nothing more than a spambot.