Back in the 1990s, before anything was cool (or so my children tell me) and at the dawn of the Age of the Meme, a couple of college students invented a game they called the "Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon".

The conceit behind the Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon was that actor Kevin Bacon could be connected to any other actor, via a chain of association of no more than six steps.

Why Kevin Bacon? More or less arbitrarily, but the students had noted that Bacon said in an interview that "he had worked with everybody in Hollywood or someone who's worked with them" and took that statement as a challenge.

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