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Progress on getting shipwrecked sailors to adopt ICMPv6 has been slow.
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Source: https://xkcd.com/3150/
this post was submitted on 03 Oct 2025
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Would love to see them try this with the Message In a Bottle protocol. Would probably take a few centuries, but still...
"Hi, I'd like to hear a TCP joke."
"Hello, would you like to hear a TCP joke?"
"Yes, I'd like to hear a TCP joke."
"OK, I'll tell you a TCP joke."
"Ok, I will hear a TCP joke."
"Are you ready to hear a TCP joke?"
"Yes, I am ready to hear a TCP joke."
"Ok, I am about to send the TCP joke. It will last 10 seconds, it has two characters, it does not have a setting, it ends with a punchline."
"Ok, I am ready to get your TCP joke that will last 10 seconds, has two characters, does not have an explicit setting, and ends with a punchline."
"I'm sorry, your connection has timed out. Hello, would you like to hear a TCP joke?"
I'd tell you a UDP joke, but you might not get it.
That’s so baud
Or you might, we just would have no way of knowing.
You wo⌧ld ⌧nly ge⌧ a f⌧w pa⌧ts h⌧re ⌧nd the⌧e.