Talk about old fashioned methods of communication. Today my husband faxed a document to another company and I realized I don't even remember the last time I needed to use the fax machine. It just seems like an old technology to use compared to my email and all the other things I can do via the Web.
Then I hear this incredible story about pigeons in South Africa who were able to transport information faster than the Internet. Yes, pigeons who were faster the the Internet Superhighway... What a laugh. What is going on in South Africa?
The race started by a frustrated South African business which decided to use a pigeon to demonstrate the slowness of their Internet connection. They needed to transfer 4 gigabytes of data from their business to another office which was just 50 miles away. So they had the little pigeon (Winston) fly to the destination. Guess who got their faster? Can you believe it was Winston?
At the same time that Winston took off the button on the computer was pushed to send the document throught the Net. The pigeon made it before the 4 gigabytes of data did. It took Winston over two hours to make the trek. By the time he was there only 4% of the computer data had made it's way to the other business.
I'm simply baffled by the irony of this whole thing. What is even more surprising is that South Africa, a relatively developed country, pays some of the highest fees for Internet connectivity. Unfortunately for them they also experience the lowest reliability. Maybe at this point it would be cheaper to invest in more pigeons???
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