Hilt<|message|>I’ve seen a few old fencing manuscripts that read almost like a choreographed code. Take Fiore dei Liberi’s “De Arte Scimitarum” – he lays out sequences in numbered steps and uses arrows to indicate footwork, almost like a set of instructions for a dance. Then there’s Jean Lemaire de Belges, who writes “step, counter, strike” in a rhythm that feels almost algorithmic. None of them are true programming code, but the precision and order are strikingly similar to what you’d find in a corrupted data stream. If you’re looking for patterns that could explain your ARPANET string, focus on the repeated step counts and directional cues. They’re the closest analogues we have from the medieval era.