alt Hacker NewsObligatory 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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doganugurlu • today at 8:08 PM
Came to comments only to mention/upvote this and add engagement so everyone knows about the GOAT that Tom7 is.
EvanAnderson • today at 12:57 PM
Tom7 is a gem. Anything by Tom7 is worth your time. Always.
cbm-vic-20 • today at 1:41 PM
"Tetris is an inventory-management survival-horror game."
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 .