This reminds me of the old saying "never under estimate the through-put of a station wagon full of hard drives". It looks like it has disappeared from the internet but at one time someone had a calculator where you could enter the number of hard drives your station wagon could hold, the size of the hard drives and the time it took to drive across town from data center A to data center B and would tell you what bandwidth you would need to transfer the same amount of data using FTP. I suppose you could make the same calculation if you could make the MTU size larger that the carrier pigeon was carrying.
RFC-1149: IP over Avian Carriers
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Re: RFC-1149: IP over Avian Carriers
#32Don't forget the updated RFC: "IP over Avian Carriers with Quality of Service"
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#33Another gem from back when the internet was fun: HTTP Status 418: I'm a teapot - https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Status/418 Wasn't there also a protocol for checking vending machines for cold drinks?
Which is actually used in a few places. Google always return it from https://www.google.com/teapot , and Binance uses that status code if you've been IP-banned for exceeding rate limits.
I've worked on several big SaaS platforms, and all of them have at least one easter egg in there that returns teapot ;-)
Re: RFC-1149: IP over Avian Carriers
#34I love it when a new generation finds all the fun RFCs.
The company I'm at hires a lot of interns, and it's always fun to see years old jokes make it into slack from people being exposed to it for the first time. The classic Little Bobby Tables XKCD was recently discovered. Makes me feel a little better about them trampling on my lawn.
Re: RFC-1149: IP over Avian Carriers
#35Another gem from back when the internet was fun: HTTP Status 418: I'm a teapot - https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Status/418 Wasn't there also a protocol for checking vending machines for cold drinks?
Yes.
Still remember the day 30+years ago using my 2400 baud to connect to internet and discovered FYI articles and the zen of internet.
Much better than reading ICL and IBM manual (red book ok but no fun) I supposed and debug 370 assembler Abend code etc.
Re: RFC-1149: IP over Avian Carriers
#36I love it when a new generation finds all the fun RFCs.
Indeed, it’s a classic XKCD-1053 — https://xkcd.com/1053/
Re: RFC-1149: IP over Avian Carriers
#37Another gem from back when the internet was fun: HTTP Status 418: I'm a teapot - https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Status/418 Wasn't there also a protocol for checking vending machines for cold drinks?
You're probably thinking of 'The "Only" Coke Machine on the Internet' https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~coke/history_long.txt
I forward this discussion to my sons saying that there is a story about coke machine. Here you go. Thanks.
Re: RFC-1149: IP over Avian Carriers
#38This reminds me of the old saying "never under estimate the through-put of a station wagon full of hard drives". It looks like it has disappeared from the internet but at one time someone had a calculator where you could enter the number of hard drives your station wagon could hold, the size of the hard drives and the time it took to drive across town from data center A to data center B and would tell you what bandwi…
A similar calculator exists here! https://cable.ayra.ch/pigeon/
Re: RFC-1149: IP over Avian Carriers
#39Another gem from back when the internet was fun: HTTP Status 418: I'm a teapot - https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Status/418 Wasn't there also a protocol for checking vending machines for cold drinks?
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I wonder if someone fill the column and it is not empty say 1 bottle left. Then it is still not cold if someone else got say the 2nd one. Any source code available to check :-)
Re: RFC-1149: IP over Avian Carriers
#40If you could load a few pigeons with microSD cards that would be something. The latency might be rough but the bandwidth would be killer!