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where is winston when you need him (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago by Violet_the_Gremlin_Bean to c/southafrica
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What's winston?

[–] Violet_the_Gremlin_Bean 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

a pigeon who beat Telkom in internet speed. basically, in 2009, a guy working at an office of the financial services company The Unlimited in Howick said to his boss "my internet is so slow a pigeon could outspeed it". so his boss decided to test it out. they got a pigeon named Winston from Durban and put a little vest on him with a USB stick with 4 GBs of data on it, and then Winston started to fly back to his home in Gillits at 10 am. a taxi driver picked him up and delivered him to the head office of The Unlimited in Hillcrest and then uploaded the data at 11:45. 26 minutes before Winston started flying, they started to send the data remotely. by the time the data was uploaded from Winston, the remote transfer was just under 4% complete

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I knew about the story, didn't know the pigeon was named Winston 😁

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I mean, CDNs do exist but

  1. They aren't private

  2. Not everything uses them