This makes me wonder - what’s the digital equivalent of a message in a bottle? Is it maybe a message hidden on a random URL string?
Message in a bottle from Scottish girl found in Norway after 25 years
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Re: Message in a bottle from Scottish girl found in Norway after 25 years
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It feels somehow significant that the Facebook reply ended up being its own message in a bottle.
Savage. But accurate. We should start making articles about that. Person checks their nested nested spam, other inbox on Facebook and finds endearing highly relevant message from the turn of the decade.
I’d bet almost everyone who uses Instagram and/or Facebook has stories like that. It’s crazy how poor of a UX choice it is, and I imagine Facebook did it this way only because they’re so bad at spam prevention.
Re: Message in a bottle from Scottish girl found in Norway after 25 years
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Learning about a load of random stuff in primary school is incredibly important. How else do children find out what they're interested in?
I don't know anyone that find out what they were interested by learning random things in primary school. I don't think it is a common experience.
My interest in computers didn't come from primary school; primary school didn't teach us very much about computers, except near the end in a one-off series of experimental lessons by a teacher who left not long afterwards. However, my interest in biology very much came from primary school; until then, I didn't know there was a field of study devoted to living things. (Sure, I could've found out later, but why should I have had to wait?)
Re: Message in a bottle from Scottish girl found in Norway after 25 years
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Savage. But accurate. We should start making articles about that. Person checks their nested nested spam, other inbox on Facebook and finds endearing highly relevant message from the turn of the decade.
I’d bet almost everyone who uses Instagram and/or Facebook has stories like that. It’s crazy how poor of a UX choice it is, and I imagine Facebook did it this way only because they’re so bad at spam prevention.
I have no use for LinkedIn generally (at least not now) but I've had an account for years with links to some old acquaintances I don't really care to be associated with anymore, due to several industry, geographical, and social changes. I checked it on a whim about a year ago and found an old message from someone I hadn't talked to in over 7 years, very professional message just trying to catch up. I have no other social media accounts and am not easily found through general searches, so it was the only way this person could reach me.
I felt horrible for weeks that I had never responded, then I sent off a reply. I then promptly forgot that I did so, and abandoned LinkedIn for another year. I checked again last week for some reason and I had a year-old response to my response. I forgot to reply and only just now remembered this situation.
I'm now trying to decide if I should bother responding and risk another long delay, or pretend I'm dead.
Re: Message in a bottle from Scottish girl found in Norway after 25 years
#45This makes me wonder - what’s the digital equivalent of a message in a bottle? Is it maybe a message hidden on a random URL string?
maybe a message posted to an obscure usenet forum in 1996, bouncing around different servers eventually somehow surviving in google's archive to be discovered by someone randomly wandering around google groups...
Re: Message in a bottle from Scottish girl found in Norway after 25 years
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I find it interesting that I only ever hear that kind of complaint from Americans. Here in Europe, cursive/script is the basic way you learn writing, you automatically transition to something other later in life ... and we have zero hate for either variant. As for lack of legibility: I would guess US teachers not enforcing good style in preschool and elementary school contribute to that.
I can't remember the last time I wrote anything long form without a keyboard. Is that still a thing enough people do to have strong opinions about this?
Then the zombies happened, and your message to the front couldn't be read, we fell to the hordes because of your lack of skill at cursive thank you the end.
Re: Message in a bottle from Scottish girl found in Norway after 25 years
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I’d bet almost everyone who uses Instagram and/or Facebook has stories like that. It’s crazy how poor of a UX choice it is, and I imagine Facebook did it this way only because they’re so bad at spam prevention.
I have no use for LinkedIn generally (at least not now) but I've had an account for years with links to some old acquaintances I don't really care to be associated with anymore, due to several industry, geographical, and social changes. I checked it on a whim about a year ago and found an old message from someone I hadn't talked to in over 7 years, very professional message just trying to catch up. I have no other so…
Been pretending I'm dead to linkedin for years and feeling pretty good about it, for anecdata.
Re: Message in a bottle from Scottish girl found in Norway after 25 years
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And the rest of the time it's illegible scrawl and has no place in basic education. Even [0], the US declaration of independence, is horrendous to read compared to this 8 year old girl's handwriting. https://www.christies.com/lot/lot-declaration-of-independenc... ?
Apart from the low resolution of that scan, I find that easy to read.
The hi res version sibling posted at Wikipedia is very readable and very beautiful.
Re: Message in a bottle from Scottish girl found in Norway after 25 years
#49Look how neat that handwriting is. None of that nonsense scrawl they introduce in KS2 now (I believe Americans call it cursive)
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Re: Message in a bottle from Scottish girl found in Norway after 25 years
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And the rest of the time it's illegible scrawl and has no place in basic education. Even [0], the US declaration of independence, is horrendous to read compared to this 8 year old girl's handwriting. https://www.christies.com/lot/lot-declaration-of-independenc... ?
Not sure which cursive is taught in the US, but to me (having learned cursive writing in Southern Europe in the 90s) that looks surprisingly legible, if not for the quality of the picture in your link. Here's a high-res version: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8f/United_S... Except for the "double s" that looks like an "f" (that ligature was common also in fonts for bookprinting at the times, so it's…
My experience with my kids going through school in the US is that cursive is not taught. When I expressed surprise at this to the elementary school principal he told me very few parents could write cursive either.