> No one is certain what lava lamps were used for.
Nitpick: I'm fairly certain lava lamps have been used as secure random number generators.
Edit: a quick search on kagi confirms it.
Nitpick: I'm fairly certain lava lamps have been used as secure random number generators.
Edit: a quick search on kagi confirms it.
> Nitpick: I'm fairly certain lava lamps have been used as secure random number generators.
> Edit: a quick search on kagi confirms it.
But that use case came about in the ~90s? The patent for lava lamps was filed somewhere around the 60s...