Never underestimate the bandwidth of a truck full of disks on the freeway. Or a pigeon with a datacard.
[A] company in South Africa called Unlimited IT, frustrated by terribly slow Internet speeds, decided to prove their point by sending an actual homing pigeon with a “data card” strapped to its leg from one of their offices to another while at the same time uploading the same amount of data to the same destination via their ISPs data lines. The media outlet reporting this triumph said that it took the pigeon just over 1 hour to make the 80km/50mile flight, whereas it took over 2 hours to transfer just 4% of that data.
@kelson RFC1149
Yes! I’d forgotten how far back the IP-over-Avian-carrier spec went!
Sometimes getting different Fediverse platforms to send messages successfully feels like using ActivityPub-over-Avian-Carrier Protocol.
I imagine that the internet in their area is a lot faster now. But you can also put a lot more on a datacard light enough for a pigeon to carry!