I 'invented' a hash table like this many years ago. I'm sure I wasn't anywhere near the first, either, but at the time I thought it was pretty hot shit using a

I 'invented' a hash table like this many years ago. I'm sure I wasn't anywhere near the first, either, but at the time I thought it was pretty hot shit using a linked list as the thing to deal with collisions. It's funny how many people come up with the same ideas.