IN SEARCH OF SIMPLICITY
October 5, 2009 at 10:20 AM | Posted in Elegant Simplicity, Technical | Leave a commentTags: pigeon faster, simplicity, slow dsl, south africa, Technology, wins, winston
Here’s another story that caught our attention: in South Africa, the internet service is apparently so slow that a local IT company challenged Telkom’s DSL service to a race… against a carrier pigeon.
Winston the pigeon carried a 4GB memory stick 50 miles to another branch of the IT company. While they downloaded the files onto the memory stick and as Winston took off, they simultaneously sent the file to the same location via Telkom’s DSL. Continue Reading IN SEARCH OF SIMPLICITY…
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