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Post Archive for October 2009

Homing Pigeon vs. South African Internet
October 1, 2009 ♦ Comments Off on Homing Pigeon vs. South African Internet

Recently, a South African call-center business, frustrated with its slow Internet connection, decided to transfer data between two of its offices – via messenger pigeon. The pigeon traveled 50 miles with 4gb of data in just over 2 hours; only 100mb was sent over the hard line in that time. …