According to Typing Monkeys Don’t Write Shakespeare, six monkeys sharing one computer won’t produce Shakespeare:
Give an infinite number of monkeys an infinite number of typewriters, the theory goes, and they will eventually produce the works of Shakespeare.Give six monkeys one computer for a month, and they will make a mess.
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At first, said Phillips, “the lead male got a stone and started bashing the hell out of it.“Another thing they were interested in was in defecating and urinating all over the keyboard,” added Phillips, who runs the university’s Institute of Digital Arts and Technologies.
Eventually, monkeys Elmo, Gum, Heather, Holly, Mistletoe and Rowan produced five pages of text, composed primarily of the letter S. Later, the letters A, J, L and M crept in.
We need more monkeys!
The notion that monkeys typing at random will eventually produce literature is often attributed to Thomas Huxley, a 19th-century scientist who supported Charles Darwin’s theories of evolution. Mathematicians have also used it to illustrate concepts of chance.
The monkeys’ output has been posted on-line.