I have seen all Internet... Anything...

[prog]

Don't ask me how i found it, but I find this page on a spam blog strangely haunting. Look at those comments, from folks like "Stinky", "Merlin" and "Bob" all groping around in the same machine-generated dialect of broken English, trying desperately to buy or sell the same nonsense object but apparently unable to connect with one another. They make me think of ghosts.

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[metahacker.livejournal.com]

I just assumed the comments were written by the page author too. It sure does remind one of ghosts each wrapped in their own bubble of reality, though.

[prog.livejournal.com]

More that they are probably generated by a subroutine in the same script that made the original post, yes.

[chocorisu.livejournal.com]

The final one, with the title "sad", is especially haunting.

[rikchik.livejournal.com]

I need to buy a gostak. I have doshes that need to be distimmed.

[mmcirvin.livejournal.com]

The whole thing does strike me as a scenario from a wry and slightly rueful science-fiction satire of several decades ago, maybe from the Horace Gold Galaxy.