The idea of using a cave to store memories for a bit by yelling into it so the idea echoes back later, is a beautiful dwarven fantasy solution that I don't think could have even been imagined today. Nerds just no longer spend their formative years exploring the real world

We are lost in the deeps, crafting a new world, completely enchanted by the demon we awakened in the delving.

[–] xthexder@l.sw0.com 10 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I watched a whole video on someone storing data as in-flight ping packets to the highest latency servers they could find. I don't think we're lacking in creativity at least.

[–] Nouvellalia@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

That's really cool. That was the 90s wasn't it? I think I remember reading something about that in 2600. Cool though it may be, it's just the same delay-line memory, but using the Internet as a medium rather than a drum of mercury. Which echoes what I was saying. I agree with you that creativity is not lacking now. I was just musing on how it's mostly mapped off the map now rather than the territory.

[–] xthexder@l.sw0.com 8 points 3 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

This was much more recent, in 2022: https://youtu.be/JcJSW7Rprio

Edit: Wow, I completely forgot where this video went. The ping storage is only the first 10 minutes. I won't spoil it, but it goes hard(er)

[–] eah@programming.dev 1 points 1 day ago

tom7 is a legend.

[–] VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

You can also use birds as a storage medium.

https://flowingdata.com/2025/07/30/storing-png-image-data-in-a-birds-song/