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Re:Pingfs: Stores your data in ICMP ping packets by _jholland on Friday December 19, 2025 @04:41AM (#46323954)
Obligatory Tom7 reference: [Harder Drive: Hard drives we didn't want or need](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcJSW7Rprio)

He stores data in ICMP ping packets, but also Tetris board states, among others. If you are not familiar with Tom7, let this be an introduction to a heavyweight whimsical internet nerd

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Re:Pingfs: Stores your data in ICMP ping packets by EvanAnderson on Friday December 19, 2025 @07:57AM (#46325308)
Tom7 is a gem. Anything by Tom7 is worth your time. Always.
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Re:Pingfs: Stores your data in ICMP ping packets by leoc on Friday December 19, 2025 @08:24AM (#46325573)
38:37 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZLpbhsE72I&t=2317s in Jay Forrester's "The Design Environment and Innovations of Project Whirlwind" talk ( https://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/10270308... ):

> There was a desperate search for better memory. We seriously considered. at one stage. renting a television microwave link from Boston to Buffalo and back so that one could store something like 3,000 bits in the 3 milliseconds of round-trip transit time.

Though I'm not sure why they wouldn't have just used a delay line for that task: that form of memory was already in use in computers, as discussed by Forrester himself from 11:15 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZLpbhsE72I&t=675s .

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Re:Pingfs: Stores your data in ICMP ping packets by cbm-vic-20 on Friday December 19, 2025 @08:41AM (#46325748)
"Tetris is an inventory-management survival-horror game."
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Re:Pingfs: Stores your data in ICMP ping packets by doganugurlu on Friday December 19, 2025 @03:08PM (#46330284)
Came to comments only to mention/upvote this and add engagement so everyone knows about the GOAT that Tom7 is.
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