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* [[Edgar Allan Poe]]'s ''Manuscript Found In A Bottle'' (1833), making this [[Older Than Radio]] at a minimum, and probably even older.
* [[James Bond]] leaves a message taped inside an aeroplane toilet in the novel ''[[Goldfinger]]''.
* The framing device of ''Yosl Rakover talks to God'' is that the novella is a crossover prayer/diary written by [[Holocaust (miniseries)|Holocaust]] victim Yosl Rakover, hidden in a basement in the ghetto of Warsaw, and found after the war. In reality, it was written in Argentina in the late forties by Zvi Kolitz, and Yosl Rakover is a fictional character. This important fact was dropped in some [[Keep Circulating the Tapes|inofficial reprints]], leading people to believe that the framing story was true, something the author never intended. When faced with the existence of an author, many chose to denounce the story as a fraud, rather than laud it as a marvelously insightful piece of fiction. A meta case of [[Misaimed Fandom]]?
* In ''[[Winnie the Pooh]]'' a flood threatens Piglet's home so he sends out a message in a bottle hoping for help. Pooh spots the bottle but can't understand the message, so he sets off to find Christopher Robin and they both go to Piglet's rescue.
* In Truman Capote's short story, ''Hello, Stranger'', a respectable family man happens upon a message in bottle while swimming in the ocean. He replies to the sender, a 12-year-old girl named Linda Reilly, which starts a chain of tragedy.
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== [[Radio]] ==
* In the original ''[[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy]]'' radio series, Arthur Dent and Ford Prefect are stranded on prehistoric Earth, and attempt to attract the attention of a passing spaceship by waving a towel at it. A volcano then erupts, covering the towel with lava. When the Earth is blown up six million years later, the now-fossilized towel gets launched into space and found by Zaphod Beeblebrox in the spaceship Heart Of Gold, who travels back in time and rescues them. (Things like this tend to happen whenever you use the Heart Of Gold's "Infinite Improbability" drive.)
== [[Real Life]] ==
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** You do this by writing a message, then putting the DS in a low-power state that leaves the wireless on and carrying it around with you. Should you happen to pass by another DS in the same state, you'll trade messages, an interesting approximation of the low odds of success inherent in actual bottle throwing (subject, of course, to the concentration of fellow gamers in your environment).
* In ''[[Illusion of Gaia]]'', Will and Kara find one of these, ironically while shipwrecked at sea, so their discovery of the message doesn't do a heck of a lot of good to whoever tossed it out there.
* In ''[[Phantom Brave]]'', Marona receives some of her missions from messages in a bottle. Justified (sorta) in that these bottles are living constructs, and actively ''swim'' to their destinations. You can even recruit them to fight by your side.
* Finding messages in floating bottles while exploring in her kayak allows Nancy to find a hidden location in ''[[Nancy Drew|Danger on Deception Island]]''.
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