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GDC 2003 – Make Better Games
Six degrees of separation gets famous!
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The first appearance of “six degrees”
(except he said 5) is in Hungarian writer
Frigyes Karinthy’s story “Láncszemek.”
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The next was Stanley Milgram’s
experiment in 1967, which found that the
distance was actually 5.5.
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The term came from John Guare’s play
from 1991 (and subsequent movie).