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		gry on Jan 21, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Yesterday, the Internet Solved a 20-year-old Myste... To be fair, this wasn't searchable in 1996. :) They rediscovered the card a couple days ago and the string of characters only results in the content itself. https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=OFWAIHHBTNTKCTWBDOEAIIIHFU... The solution was someone recognizing the pattern, not arbitrary Googling, which I find far more interesting.

smackfu on Jan 21, 2014 [–]

Actually, arbitrary Googling works pretty well. Just start chopping letters of the end, and you get a hit on "OFWAIHHBTNTKCTWBDOEAIIIH" from 2007.

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