Virtual monkeys write Shakespeare

[Rev. Rye]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-15060310

A few million virtual monkeys are close to re-creating the complete works of Shakespeare by randomly mashing keys on virtual typewriters.

I didnt think this would actually happen.
Thats the world for you....full of surprises.

I think I remember an older project that happened years ago which I think only manages to get to 24 letters from Henry IV, Part 2. Here's an Internet Archive cache of that site. It took 2.73785 duodecillion (that's one followed by 39 zeros) "monkey-years", or in human time, about a year and a half.
"RUMOUR. Open your ears;" is the farthest anyone'd gotten.

Another attempt of note at the complete works of shakespeare can be found here.

Forgive me for not believing that they were less than random.