I'm Curious, how many people on here know what Sneakernet is

I misquoted, but it's by [Andrew Tanenbaum](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24359016): > "Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway.".

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Texas_Kimchi@reddit

I worked in a SCIF with a tape Sneakernet for the Marine Corp. Armed guards at the door and everything.

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huxgress@reddit

Sneakernet is old school, but do you know PidgeonNet?

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leslapin@reddit

i knew it a PtPPoCP - Point to Point Protocol over Carrier Pigeon

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akerasi@reddit

[https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2549.html](https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2549.html)

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huxgress@reddit

PigeonNet is the story that spawned that rfc.

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FI-Engineer@reddit

You mean IP over avian carriers?

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DizzyIzzy801@reddit

Doesn't count until you have to explain it to your boss who isn't sure how spell check works (and has some doubts).

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CanadianSpectre@reddit

Buddy and I used to mail zip disks full of warez and mp3s to each other. Those were the days.

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TinyGIR@reddit

Still a viable method of moving large amounts of data. Hell, Google does something similar for customers who need to put an immense amount of data into the cloud.

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https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-snowmobile-move-exabytes-of-data-to-the-cloud-in-weeks/ Sad to see this is no longer a thing, but DevOps engineers dreamed of a day their boss would justify ordering a warehouse in a SEMI TRUCK!

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mahelious82@reddit

A backpack full of 100 MB zip drives is better than a T1 connection

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ConfusionOk4129@reddit

Yes, you sure you want my USB drive? ![gif](giphy|60cqkwXIPCgHm)

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big_z_0725@reddit

We down for whatever. https://youtu.be/GyB6ffmXsZo?si=2pOJuqGEBwz6MIic

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mindsunwound@reddit

I know of it, but it was out of use by the time I started my IT career in 1997.

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RoundTheBend6@reddit

It’s often the best form of getting information to humans to this day.

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B4SSF4C3@reddit

Yall remember the amazing advance that was the Zip drive for this?

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zismonger@reddit

Video production’s been sneaker net only until the last decade. At least for the non-yacht owning class…

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xt0rt@reddit

It's when I out a thumb drive in the pouch of my Roos, duh!

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higglesworth@reddit

Yep, and the surge of Linux has brought back the command line skills learned in the dos days

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Aronacus@reddit

My first big IT gig. I did work with a law office. They gave me a list of apps to install. They expected, I'd do it by hand, machine by machine. I mapped the files to a share. Wrote a script and pushed it via GPO. Hour later 250 machines had java, and Adobe reader.

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