Xkcd Message In A Bottle

No one had opened it. Not until tonight.

The comic 3150: Ping treats bottles as unreliable data packets. In 1675, this latency is part of the joke; by the time the "unsubscribe" bottle is found, the sender has likely been "inbox zeroed" by the tide for years. xkcd message in a bottle

A minute later, the server logs show the bottle moving again—carrying her reply into the digital deep, toward a broken car in 2013, toward a man who might still be waiting for a shore that never came. No one had opened it