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For those that don't know what the sneakernet is it's essentially transferring data through physical means. For example I would occasionally download TV shows to a hard drive for a friend who didn't have access to the internet after they thought they cancelled their subscription to their ISP and acquired hundreds of dollars of debt. You can find a Wikipedia page for the term sneakernet here.

Have any of you set something up with your neighbors or family? I'd include LAN setups where content as shared as part of the sneakernet. Kind of similar to how stuff has been distributed in Cuba.

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[–] jawa21@lemmy.sdf.org 18 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down a highway.

[–] mub@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 month ago

Damn it. Beat me to it. I'll be first ext time.

[–] ProtonBadger@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 month ago

Andrew S. Tanenbaum, Computer Networks, 3rd ed., p. 83.

[–] elucubra@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 month ago

That was a saying in the 80s already, and still relevant today.