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 4 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 4 days ago* (last edited 3 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 2 days ago

tom7 is a legend.

[–] VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world 2 points 3 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/