LambdaRX@sh.itjust.works to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 7 days agoTIL Pigeons can carry Internet trafficen.wikipedia.orgexternal-linkmessage-square13fedilinkarrow-up1124arrow-down16
arrow-up1118arrow-down1external-linkTIL Pigeons can carry Internet trafficen.wikipedia.orgLambdaRX@sh.itjust.works to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish · 7 days agomessage-square13fedilink
minus-squaregivesomefucks@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up25·7 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-up26·7 days agoNever underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of backup tapes hurtling down the highway.
minus-squareleftzero@lemmynsfw.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·7 days agoGet ready for a large file transfer…
minus-squareshalafi@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·7 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-up5·7 days agoA hatchback full of SD cards can beat that easily, though.
minus-squaremox@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·7 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)
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.
Get ready for a large file transfer…
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