Message In A Bottle [cracked] | Xkcd

She saves it.

Want me to turn this into a full xkcd-style comic script or a narrated video monologue? xkcd message in a bottle

The comic 3150: Ping treats bottles as unreliable data packets. In 1675, this latency is part of the joke; by the time the "unsubscribe" bottle is found, the sender has likely been "inbox zeroed" by the tide for years. She saves it

Not across an ocean—across the internet. It was a digital message, sealed inside a fake TCP packet with a strange header: X-Bottle: true . It jumped from server to server, router to router, cached in forgotten CDN nodes, saved as a temp file on a corporate proxy in Omaha, mirrored onto a defunct Ukrainian Minecraft forum. Every time it landed, a simple script ran: Is anyone listening? No? Forward. In 1675, this latency is part of the

To: whoever finds this Date: 19 Sept 2013 23:14 UTC Subject: Hi from the past

I wrote this little script on my laptop while waiting for a tow. It’ll inject this message into the next outgoing packet to a random IP. Then that server will pass it to another random IP, and so on, forever, unless someone reads it. I gave it a fake HTTP header: X-Bottle: catch-and-release .

— Gabe