Sep
12
“In a very tortoise and hare story, a financial services company based in Durban, South Africa pitted a homing pigeon carrying 4GB of data on a USB stick against its broadband connection to find out which would be faster transferring the data between its two offices 80km apart. The homing pigeon, named Winston, arrived with the USB stick in two hours and seven minutes, just as the download hit 4% complete.”
Pigeon beats broadband in data transfer race
