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@firebirdd: Oh wow, one of the first cons I went to gave Borges a lifetime achievement award at the sit-down dinner (I'm not very awake and cant make words, sorry). BANQUET! They call it a banquet even though it's still nerds in t-shirts except for the host. Never go to the banquet unless you have to. Banquet tip there. ANYWAY, they had Mr Borges on landline speakerphone. He wasn't quite sure what was going on because he was getting on in years and we were a bunch of dopes in Kansas City. But it was cool to get to hear his voice.

The chicken was terrible.

@Cheesy_Milk: omgomg okay!!

so basically, the library of babel is a short story published by author jorge luis borges in 1941, and published in english in 1962. originally published in rioplatense spanish, it was immediately popular. jorge was a librarian and would finish his work quickly to then go into the basement to write. The library of babel is a story about a library. each room in the library is a hexagon, with an entrance and an exit opposite to one another. on each wall are five shelves, with 32 books per shelf. The books only use 25 characters (period, space, comma, and 22 letters.) the inhabitants believe the library contains all possible written text, although most are useless gibberish.

a guy named jonathan basile took this idea, of an infinite library, and ran with it. he made a website (https://libraryofbabel.info/) which contains (when completed) all possible text (within like 1 mil characters per book). you can insert any text into the search bar and it will find it within its database.

it works similarly to minecraft seeds, with an almost infinite algorithm. (like WAY more pages than atoms, but still technically finite.) it feels fake because if you just browse the library or sift you'll almost never find anything, but you can find it in mere seconds just by searching. i think jonathan basile himself put it best when he said: "Since I imagine the question will present itself in some visitors’ minds (a certain amount of distrust of the virtual is inevitable) I’ll head off any doubts: any text you find in any location of the library will be in the same place in perpetuity. We do not simply generate and store books as they are requested - in fact, the storage demands would make that impossible. Every possible permutation of letters is accessible at this very moment in one of the library's books, only awaiting its discovery."

if you want to learn more eml me!!! (Pmedeiros506@Lsr7.net)

(EDIT: k i'm soz 4 da wall of txt, i added some paragraph breaks, n cut some txt lol, eml me 4 mor in-depth, i cant bleve dat was my 'basically')

(EDIT 2.0 i din use slng 4 da whole infodump,, ru proud of me? /j)