Canada's alternative Internet

Re:Canada's alternative Internet by jcr on Monday June 06, 2011 @04:07AM (#2624062)

I wish I could remember who said it, and I think it was an IETF thing from the 70s or 80s, but there is a funny and famous phase about this sort of thing:

"Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of back up tapes."

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Re:Canada's alternative Internet by gnoupi on Monday June 06, 2011 @04:29AM (#2624095)

Apparently it's Andrew S. Tanenbaum (http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Andrew_S._Tanenbaum), and the actual quote was:

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

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Re:Canada's alternative Internet by smutticus on Monday June 06, 2011 @04:33AM (#2624100)

I think that quote is typically accredited to Andy Tanenbaum. But who knows if he was the first one to say such a thing.

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