Welcome to AirNManky's Cabinet of Curiosity's, a production of I Heart Radio and Grimm

and Mild.

Our world is full of the unexplainable.

And if history is an open book, all of these amazing tales are right there on display,

just waiting for us to explore.

Welcome to the Cabinet of Curiosity's.

There are some strange and disturbing things crawling around the balls of the internet.

Some are better left unmentioned, while others have been thankfully forgotten.

Early memes and hamster dances have gone the way of free AOL CDs never to be heard from

again.

Today we express ourselves online with emoticons, emojis, and cartoon dogs unfazed by encroaching

flames.

But one piece of the internet of old still lingers on in our memories.

In fact, it predates the web as we know it.

Back in the mid 1990s, a series of cryptic messages haunted usenet boards, kicking off an adventure

with the potential to either become an epic treasure hunt or a digital dead end.

Usenet was an online venue where people would share news and messages, sort of like today's

internet forums.

In August of 1996, usenet users were bombarded with hundreds of strange messages comprised

of blocks of text with no clear meaning, and they all had been sent with the same subject

line, Markovian Paralax Denigrate.

Today, as the saying goes, the internet is forever, meaning that what we share, even if

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