Homing Pigeon Beats DSL Line

Thursday, September 10, 2009

Homing pigeon Winston has made history by beating a Telkom ADSL line in delivering 4GB of data from Howick to Hillcrest, outside Durban in far less time than it takes to download the data using the state-run Telkom's data network.

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Where is that damn bird with my copy of Hustler......

#1 | Posted by Shredder at 2009-09-10 01:42 PM | Reply | Flag:

'state-run Telkom's"

Government health care will be great.

#2 | Posted by member2586 at 2009-09-10 02:05 PM | Reply | Flag:

'state-run Telkom's"
Government health care will be great.
#2 | Posted by member2586 at 2009-09-10 02:05 PM

#1 reason for personal bankruptcy is medical bills.

#3 | Posted by redlightrobot at 2009-09-10 02:18 PM | Reply | Flag:

Back in 2005, The Tonight Show hosted a competition between two teams, seeing who could send a message the fastest.

One team was using SMS texting via cellphone, the other team were two Ham Radio operators using Morse code.

The message that each team had to send was "I just saved a bunch of money on my car insurance"

vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?
fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=2005054

If the video link above didn't work (it's blocked here at work), the winners were the Hams using Morse code.

#4 | Posted by Roy_Batty at 2009-09-10 02:25 PM | Reply | Flag: