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Re:Twitter migrates data to Google Cloud by fro0116 on Wednesday January 23, 2019 @03:57AM (#18976758)
> Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway.

https://what-if.xkcd.com/31/

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Re:Twitter migrates data to Google Cloud by BerislavLopac on Wednesday January 23, 2019 @06:26AM (#18977362)
The mention of "SneakerNet" reminded me of old times when we had a bunch of old Macintoshes (pre-OSX) connected with a proprietary local network called LocalTalk. It was so unreliable that we had a couple of 3.5" floppy disks that we used to transfer files when it didn't work; the disks were labelled "LocalWalk". :D
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