I am just grinning like hell going through all this.
Even though ArpChat would probably give network admins a heart attack, your mind is most certainly fucking rad, ma'am. =) I too am the kind of person that read books on OSI layers for funsies, lol. Keep playing with code! Reminds me a bit of justine tunney's work with things like https://justine.lol/ape.html where someone just goes way deep on a thing that few people seem to fully understand (in her case it would be "compiler binary format minutiae" among other things) and then asks a crazy question like "what if it were possible to mesh all the binary formats together into a meta-format that actually runs on all of them?" and then conjures up this crazy thing that actually works.