We know that while the cost per byte of persistent storage has dropped hugely over the years, it’s still a pain to fork out for a new disk drive. This must be why [MadAvidCoder] has taken a different approach to storage, placing files as multiple encoded pieces of metadata in Wikipedia edits. These are placed in the comments for Wikipedia edits — which they are at pains to stress — were all legitimate edits in the test cases. The test files are a small bitmap of a banana, and a short audio file. Meanwhile we’re reminded of the equally impractical PingFS, using network pings as a file system medium.