> if the message never achieved a physical form such as printing, does the message exist? The physical bits do exist, though, on the storage medium. Now, of co

> if the message never achieved a physical form such as printing, does the message exist? The physical bits do exist, though, on the storage medium. Now, of course this does not match our usual image of existing, since the bytes were technically always there, but it still exists in the physical world. You can actually make the same argument with a letter: The paper and ink were there before, the pattern ist what brought it to existence.