Carrier Pigeons Make A Comeback:
Written on the 11 of September, 2009, by Bree Davies
I am a devoted subscriber to Mashable for all the latest social media news. Today I came across an hilarious story which potentially has a lot of relevance to Australia, and in particular, our much talked about (and anticipated) broadband network.
Apparently a South African company conducted a little experiment – it used a carrier pigeon and Telkom ADSL (South Africa’s largest internet service provider) to send 4GB of data at the same time. Guess which one arrived first? Young Winston, the 11 month old carrier pigeon took home the gold.
Unfortunately for Telkom, only 4% of the 4GB had been transferred in the same amount of time it took Winston to arrive at his destination (just over 2 hours), with data card safely strapped to his leg.
Of course there are the obvious security implications of having pigeons flying around with data, but it raises an interesting point. Memory card storage keeps getting bigger – and there are still Australians out there forced to use archaic dial up internet. The lesson? Maybe pigeons aren’t just ‘rats with wings’ after all.
Check out the full story on the Mashable website.
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Bree Davies
Digital Project Manager
As R&B’s Digital Project Manager, Bree Davies brings experience working for some of Australia’s most high profile organisations including Morrison Media, Endemol Southern Star and the Virgin Blue Group.
