SA pigeon 'faster than broadband'

Fri Sep 11 13:36:34 UTC 2009

William Allen Simpson wrote:
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> http://newsvote.bbc.co.uk/mpapps/pagetools/print/news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8248056.stm?ad=1
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> Update needed for RFC 1149 (1 April 1990),
> A Standard for the Transmission of IP Datagrams on Avian Carriers 

Truly practical with today's storage media... if the Wiki story is
correct, it was a 4Gb memory stick
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sneakernet under "Usage Examples"). There
was the old "Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full
of tapes hurtling down the highway. —Tanenbaum, Andrew S." but then a
pigeon would have trouble hauling 9-track tapes :-)

Jeff