Hi Gabe. I’m in Finland. It’s snowing. I saw the ocean once, in Portugal. It tasted like salt and airplane coffee. Delia would’ve liked it.
A symbol of digital clutter, spam, and the frustrating persistence of modern mailing lists.
The comic consists of a single, elongated vertical panel—a format Munroe uses effectively to denote the passage of time or distance. The story is simple: a lone stick figure sits on an island and places a message in a bottle, tossing it into the sea. As the reader scrolls down (or reads down the long image), the perspective shifts to the bottle drifting through the ocean. xkcd message in a bottle
So here I am. Littering the internet.
To: whoever finds this Date: 19 Sept 2013 23:14 UTC Subject: Hi from the past Hi Gabe
Beyond the initial laugh, Message in a Bottle touches on several recurring xkcd themes:
Delia said: “A message in a bottle is just litter until someone finds it.” I saw the ocean once, in Portugal
Want me to turn this into a full xkcd-style comic script or a narrated video monologue?
xkcd Comic #1429: "Message in a Bottle" Artist: Randall Munroe Genre: Webcomic, Sci-Fi, Philosophy