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Pigeon post faster than internet
A South African IT company has proved it is faster to transmit data via a carrier pigeon than to send it using the country's leading internet service provider. The 11 months old pigeon took one hour and 8 minutes to carry a memory card on his leg a distance of 80 km while the internet provider took more than two hours to make the same process.
While wars made Europe and the States get the level of technology they have now - sort of - it looks like South Africa is having another approach, they are laying more than 11.000 km of data cables, including oceanic links, to get ready before the football World Cup next year.
