{"id":1851,"date":"2010-05-25T10:00:08","date_gmt":"2010-05-25T14:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/?p=1851"},"modified":"2015-09-14T08:07:56","modified_gmt":"2015-09-14T12:07:56","slug":"carrier-pigeons-are-faster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/2010\/05\/25\/carrier-pigeons-are-faster\/","title":{"rendered":"Carrier pigeons are faster"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry\">\n<p>This is old news, but a recent <a href=\"http:\/\/comics.com\/ripleys_believe_it_or_not\/\">Ripley&#8217;s Believe it or Not! cartoon<\/a> highlighted it for me&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1852\" href=\"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/2010\/05\/25\/carrier-pigeons-are-faster\/316433-full\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1852\" style=\"border: 1px solid black;\" title=\"316433.full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/316433.full_-330x449.gif?resize=330%2C449\" alt=\"\" width=\"330\" height=\"449\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/idUSTRE5885PM20090909\">Reuters<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Internet speed and connectivity in Africa&#8217;s largest economy are poor because of a bandwidth shortage. It is also expensive.<\/p>\n<p>Local news agency SAPA reported the 11-month-old pigeon, Winston, took one hour and eight minutes to fly the 80 km (50 miles) from Unlimited IT&#8217;s offices near Pietermaritzburg to the coastal city of Durban with a data card was strapped to his leg.<\/p>\n<p>Including downloading, the transfer took two hours, six minutes and 57 seconds &#8212; the time it took for only four percent of the data to be transferred using a Telkom line.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is old news, but a recent Ripley&#8217;s Believe it or Not! cartoon highlighted it for me&#8230; From Reuters: Internet speed and connectivity in Africa&#8217;s largest economy are poor because of a bandwidth shortage. It is also expensive. Local news agency SAPA reported the 11-month-old pigeon, Winston, took one hour and eight minutes to fly &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1977,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[159,157,165,164,166,158,161,160,162,168,167,163],"class_list":{"0":"post-1851","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-computer-news","7":"tag-believe-it-or-not","8":"tag-carrier-pigeons","9":"tag-durban","10":"tag-pietermaritzburg","11":"tag-pigeon","12":"tag-reuters","13":"tag-ripleys","14":"tag-ripleys-believe-it-or-not","15":"tag-sapa","16":"tag-south-africa","17":"tag-telkom","18":"tag-unlimited-it","19":"anons"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1977"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1851\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}