A Durban based IT company called Unlimited IT (lame name!) got tired of the slow speed internet provided by Telkom, and decided that a pigeon could deliver data faster! And so they took eleven pigeons and strapped memory sticks onto them releasing them to go from their call centre in the town of Howick to the firm's main office in Durban! At the time when the pigeons where released they began an ADSL file transfer.
Winston-the pigeon delivered the data to the firm's office in Durban in an hour and eight minutes. The firm took an additional one hour to transfer the data from the memory stick to their computers. All in all, adding upto two hours. And in these two hours the ADSL file transfer was ONLY 4% complete!! (I should really stop complaining about the slow-ness of the internet in my Bombay home!).
Oh and the article clearly mentions that the race for data transfer had certain rules.
They included "no cats allowed" and "birdseed must not have any performance-enhancing seeds within".
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Oh and this pigeon did this, without a lovesick Bhagyashree singing "Kabootar Jaa Jaa Jaa." Now that is AWESOME!
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