<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Aug 31, 2016 at 5:43 PM, Jack Haverty <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jack@3kitty.org" target="_blank">jack@3kitty.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><br>
We even mused about extreme networking.  For example, TCP/IP should be<br>
able to utilize a "network" implemented using carrier pigeons for<br>
transport, with each pigeon carrying a small tube with a strip of paper<br>
containing one packet of data.<br>
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As far as I know, no one ever did that...</blockquote></div><br>yeah, they did - there's even an RFC about it, I think, from UK.<br><br><br>see also YouTube: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQCZH9Lp8uo">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQCZH9Lp8uo</a></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">The audio and auto-caption is hilariously disconnected. </div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><a href="https://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/09/08/29/1934251/pigeon-protocol-finds-a-practical-purpose">https://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/09/08/29/1934251/pigeon-protocol-finds-a-practical-purpose</a></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><a href="http://www.cnet.com/news/pigeon-powered-internet-takes-flight/">http://www.cnet.com/news/pigeon-powered-internet-takes-flight/</a></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">v<a href="http://www.cnet.com/news/pigeon-powered-internet-takes-flight/"><br clear="all"></a><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">New postal address:<div>Google<br><div>1875 Explorer Street, 10th Floor</div><div>Reston, VA 20190</div></div></div></div>
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