All the books ever, for free
If I wait long enough — and I keep paying my hosting bills the next six trillion years — my server will generate all possible different rectangles in my Daily Rectangle project. It is a long term project.
Jonathan Basile is not as patient as I am. He created this project that is much bigger in size and ambition than my simple rectangles. He created — and finished — the Library of Babel.
At present it contains all possible pages of 3200 characters, about 104677 books
And yes of course, it also contains this blog post.
- Vasilis
So there is a difference between letting chimps type, and generating every possible page. If you want to find the next Shakespeare, then difficulty is to find the good pages in all the noise.
While I’m waiting a few trillion years to finish my slow project, all possible rectangles, at least their textual descriptions, exist already in the Library of Babel. So if you’re in a hurry, you can find all works over there.
It gets even better. All the possible Daily Rectangles already exist as an image!
As long as the Library of Babel exists, I don’t have to worry about backups.