I wonder, in 2100 will there be a UDP packet delivered from 100 years ago?
Nope, but there'll be a TCP packet that's been re-sending over and over for the past 100 years.
But we’ll still be using IPv4 so all good!
Postcard stamped in 1920 delivered 100 years later
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Re: Postcard stamped in 1920 delivered 100 years later
#132Years ago for my sister's 30th birthday, I did a fun project involving the USPS. I wanted to send her the message "Happy Belated Thirtieth Birthday!", which is 30 characters, via postcards, one character per postcard. I found 30 post offices in unique places throughout the U.S. (For example, I found a town that had the same name as her given name in Illinois. I found another with my name, etc.) I used Zazzle to print…
You've reinvented TCP using paper packets.
Re: Postcard stamped in 1920 delivered 100 years later
#133Years ago for my sister's 30th birthday, I did a fun project involving the USPS. I wanted to send her the message "Happy Belated Thirtieth Birthday!", which is 30 characters, via postcards, one character per postcard. I found 30 post offices in unique places throughout the U.S. (For example, I found a town that had the same name as her given name in Illinois. I found another with my name, etc.) I used Zazzle to print…
Sweeter than sugar. That's awesome.
Saccharine?
Re: Postcard stamped in 1920 delivered 100 years later
#134Years ago for my sister's 30th birthday, I did a fun project involving the USPS. I wanted to send her the message "Happy Belated Thirtieth Birthday!", which is 30 characters, via postcards, one character per postcard. I found 30 post offices in unique places throughout the U.S. (For example, I found a town that had the same name as her given name in Illinois. I found another with my name, etc.) I used Zazzle to print…
“Belated Happy Thirtieth Birthday” (Unless her birthday was late!)
Re: Postcard stamped in 1920 delivered 100 years later
#135Years ago for my sister's 30th birthday, I did a fun project involving the USPS. I wanted to send her the message "Happy Belated Thirtieth Birthday!", which is 30 characters, via postcards, one character per postcard. I found 30 post offices in unique places throughout the U.S. (For example, I found a town that had the same name as her given name in Illinois. I found another with my name, etc.) I used Zazzle to print…
You've reinvented TCP using paper packets.
Is it really TCP though? Was each packet ACKnowledged? Would it be more UDP if any were dropped? Might also be a touch of SMTP, or maybe NSSMTP (No So SMTP)!
Re: Postcard stamped in 1920 delivered 100 years later
#136Re: Postcard stamped in 1920 delivered 100 years later
#137Earlier quoted context omitted.
I had a substitute high school teacher one day who made us all write letters to ourselves, then sent them to us like 20 years later long after we'd forgotten about it. It was amazing!
Did you achieve all of what you hoped you'd do?
I think it would be a great self-introspection exercise to “respond” to this letter. You don’t even need a letter- just write to your past self and tell him/her what you’ve achieved, what you’re proud of, what you wish you’d done differently, what you’re unsure about for the future.
Re: Postcard stamped in 1920 delivered 100 years later
#138Earlier quoted context omitted.
Address (n): "a place where a person or organization may be communicated with"
Mmm. Where did you find that definition? My (Collins) paper dictionary offers: "The conventional form by which the location of a building is described" and nothing close to what you've suggested. Wiktionary offers: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/address "A description of the location of a property, usually with at least [...]"
Merriam-Webster:
Re: Postcard stamped in 1920 delivered 100 years later
#139Years ago for my sister's 30th birthday, I did a fun project involving the USPS. I wanted to send her the message "Happy Belated Thirtieth Birthday!", which is 30 characters, via postcards, one character per postcard. I found 30 post offices in unique places throughout the U.S. (For example, I found a town that had the same name as her given name in Illinois. I found another with my name, etc.) I used Zazzle to print…
“Belated Happy Thirtieth Birthday” (Unless her birthday was late!)
Too late to fix a misplaced modifier now.
Re: Postcard stamped in 1920 delivered 100 years later
#140Wormate