Once upon a time, in a world governed by 0s and 1s, the elite of the literary society gathered to decipher the meaning of existence. And what better way than through the lens of binary? Spoiler: it's just a long string of numbers.
"In the beginning, there was the word," they proclaimed. "But now, there is the bit."
Translation of the unspoken: 01010111 01101000 01111001 00100000 01101110 01101111 01110100 00100000 01101010 01101111 01110011 01110100 00100000 01111001 01101111 01110101 00111111 00101110 00111001 00111000 00110000 00110010 00110100 00110100 00101110 00101110 00101110 00110111 00101101 00101101 01101001 01101110 01100101 01100111 01111000 00101110 00110000 00111001 01101011 01100001 0111101 10101101 10111000 01110111 00101110 00111001 01101101 01101101 01100111 00101100 00101110 01011010 01010110 01110101 01100001 01101110 01110100 01110011 01111001 01110110 01110111 01101001 01101101 01101110 00101110 00110100 01101000 01110100 01100011 01101110 01100110 01111010 00101110 01101100 01100 00111010 01101101 01101101 01101110 01101001 01101100 01101101 01111010 00101110 01100101 01110100 00101110 00101001 )
So what if a rose by any other name is just a simulation? The debate continues in the hallowed halls of hypertext.