Slow internet speeds? It might be faster to use a pigeon.
www.washingtonpost.com
Internet speeds have come a long way since the days of the dial-up modem, but sometimes you can’t beat the millennia-old method of carrier pigeon.

Today’s the day Jeff Geerling makes it to the Washington Post for a decent story about carrier pigeons vs. Ethernet. Very fun to see as both a homelabber and newspaper person.

  • IsoKiero@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    https://what-if.xkcd.com/31/

    Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway. –Andrew Tanenbaum, 1981

    Initial assumption that it’s faster to sneakernet couple hundred GB’s is a bit dated (as are other measurements, you can fit a lot more data in a milk jug on sd cards today), but theory remains the same.

    • MostlyBlindGamer@rblind.comEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      The boxes of papers on an airplane seat in The Post come to mind. I’ve also seen encrypted hard drives being mailed to contractors with keys sent out-of-band afterwards.

      There are a lot of good reasons to carry data around.