@LambdaRX@sh.itjust.works to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish • 5 months agoTIL Pigeons can carry Internet trafficen.wikipedia.orgexternal-linkmessage-square12fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
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minus-square@givesomefucks@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish0•5 months agoThe entire point of it to show anything could be… You could say back in the day when you had to drive to a store to pick up a NES cartridge means your mom’s minivan can carry Internet traffic. It was just a way to move a physical item containing data.
minus-squareBoomer Humor DoomergodlinkfedilinkEnglish0•5 months agoNever underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of backup tapes hurtling down the highway.
minus-square@shalafi@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish0•5 months agoAWS does exactly this. They will roll up with a semi and move your drives anywhere. EDIT: Crud. They ended Snowmobile this year. https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/aws-retires-snowmobile-truck-based-data-transfer-service/
minus-squaremoxlinkfedilinkEnglish0•5 months agohttps://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Andrew_S._Tanenbaum Computer Networks, 3rd ed., p. 83. (paraphrasing Dr. Warren Jackson, Director, University of Toronto Computing Services (UTCS) circa 1985)
minus-square@fubo@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish0•5 months agoA hatchback full of SD cards can beat that easily, though.
The entire point of it to show anything could be…
You could say back in the day when you had to drive to a store to pick up a NES cartridge means your mom’s minivan can carry Internet traffic.
It was just a way to move a physical item containing data.
Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of backup tapes hurtling down the highway.
AWS does exactly this. They will roll up with a semi and move your drives anywhere.
EDIT: Crud. They ended Snowmobile this year.
https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/aws-retires-snowmobile-truck-based-data-transfer-service/
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Andrew_S._Tanenbaum
A hatchback full of SD cards can beat that easily, though.
Not in a head on.