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. ' . messages washed ashore . ' .
A beach where messages wash ashore. Cast your words into the digital ocean, and discover what others have sent adrift. Anonymous, asynchronous, adrift.
This is a digital message-in-a-bottle beach. Anyone can write a short message and cast it into the waves. Anyone can walk the shore and find what others have sent adrift.
Messages are:
Message in a bottle has ancient roots. The Greek philosopher Theophrastus reportedly cast bottles into the Mediterranean around 310 BCE to study currents. Queen Elizabeth I appointed an "Uncorker of Ocean Bottles" - opening one without permission was punishable by death.
The longest verified message-in-a-bottle journey took 131 years - from 1886 to 2017. Some messages are never found. Most wash up on strange shores far from where they were intended to go.
This digital beach works the same way. You write without knowing who will read. You find without knowing who wrote. The connection is real even though it's anonymous and delayed.
Some suggestions:
Messages are limited to 280 characters. Bottles are small. Say what matters.