LambdaRX@sh.itjust.works to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 14 days agoTIL Pigeons can carry Internet trafficen.wikipedia.orgexternal-linkmessage-square13fedilinkarrow-up1125arrow-down16
arrow-up1119arrow-down1external-linkTIL Pigeons can carry Internet trafficen.wikipedia.orgLambdaRX@sh.itjust.works to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 14 days agomessage-square13fedilink
minus-squaregivesomefucks@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up25·14 days 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-squareSemi-Hemi-Lemmygod@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up26·14 days agoNever underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of backup tapes hurtling down the highway.
minus-squareshalafi@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·14 days 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-squarefubo@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·14 days agoA hatchback full of SD cards can beat that easily, though.
minus-squaremox@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·14 days 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-squareleftzero@lemmynsfw.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·14 days agoGet ready for a large file transfer…
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/
A hatchback full of SD cards can beat that easily, though.
Not in a head on.
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Andrew_S._Tanenbaum
Get ready for a large file transfer…