Re: From Facebook's Hackathon, TCP re-implemented over chat in a post-SOPA world

Eugen Leitl writes:

To re-implement file transfer, we decided to hijack Facebook's speedy chat service to do our own packet transmission.

I've implemented SMTP over TCP/IP over postcards. Latency was a bit of a pain, and packet loss was also an issue. The fact that I'm terrible at dealing with snail mail didn't help either. Peter.