[ih] uucp, was Question re rate of growth of the Arpanet

[Jack Haverty]

I recall once in the 1980s being in a meeting planning a new site to be 
added to the Defense Data Network.  We were debating what speed of 
circuit would be appropriate for the expected traffic.  Someone 
commented something like "Well, the data we're transferring will have 
just come over the mountains on the back of a mule, so a few extra 
minutes over the network won't matter."

Made "avian networking" more realistic.  Better than "mule networking"?  
Probably more dropped datagrams though with avian. Sneakernet (even with 
mules) was part of The Internet to get bits from point A to B.

Jack

On 4/22/25 15:17, John Levine via Internet-history wrote:
> It appears that Olivier MJ Crépin-Leblond via Internet-history<ocl at gih.com>  said:
>>
>> On 22/04/2025 20:41, Johan Helsingius via Internet-history wrote:
>>> Then there was "UUCP over floppy disks". ...
>> Ah - an illustrious example of a Sneakernet.
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sneakernet
> I heard from a credible source that the NSA got a usenet feed on mag tapes.
>
> R's,
> John

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