A delightful coincidence! Just two days ago, I was perusing Wikipedia and was reading the entry for Infinite Monkey Theorem which led me to discover "The Library of Babel." Seeing the title surface again here I made sure to read the story and enjoyed it thoroughly.
And I simply must mention a similar project in real life, related, as all things I mention inevitably are, to Brian Eno and his Long Now Foundation.
The Rosetta Project is an effort to preserve all languages that have a high likelihood of extinction over the period from 2000 to 2100. Samples of such languages are to be inscribed onto a disc of nickel alloy three inches (7.62 cm) across. A Version 1.0 of the disc was completed on November 3, 2008.
The Rosetta Disk fits in the palm of your hand, yet it contains over 13,000 pages of information on over 1,500 human languages. The Long Now Foundation published an interactive graphical version of the Disk you can explore here:
https://rosettaproject.org/
Thanks for the inspiring read!
