Mar 6, 2018

OLD time messaging

This is the opposite of an instant message. 


The message in this bottle was just recently discovered in Australia, 132 years after it was tossed off a ship as part of a study into ocean currents.

“It just looked like a lovely old bottle so I picked it up thinking it might look good in my bookcase. My son’s girlfriend was the one who discovered the note when she went to tip the sand out. The note was damp, rolled tightly and wrapped with string. We took it home and dried it out, and when we opened it we saw it was a printed form, in German, with very faint German handwriting on it.”

The Western Australia Museum has the full story HERE.



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