So the man said “that’s a good thing” and the zen master said “we’ll see”
fun fact: street vehicles are still being used to transport data around. for large amounts of data, it’s faster and cheaper to write it on a disk, then ship the disk, instead of transporting it over the internet.
Never underestimate the bandwidth of a Ford Taurus full of tapes screaming down the Jersey Turnpike.
I remember someone put a Micro SD card on a pigeon and sent it. Was faster.
i remember there is an XKCD about it, i just can’t find it rn
One time I looked at a 1tb microSD card and decided there was no fucking way that much data could fit into something so small. Ever since that day, no microSD card has worked for me. They get I/O errors, each one. Suspecting this isn’t a coincidence might be my most schizophrenic thought.
Ah, classic sneakernet!
Email affected the USPS far less than people think it did.
Yeah, shitty politics has done more damage to the USPS.
Though there is some truth to OP, the new generation mail trucks are designed with less enveloped letters and more parcel post in mind than the Grumman LLV was.
Then Capitalism gave us delivery services, and the US government made the USPS bankrupt and obsolete.
The US government had a legal monopoly to “carrying letters and parcels arround.” Then it decided to remove that law, and then capitalism created delivery services.
Email was never a threat to mailed letters or magazines. It was some nonsense thunked up by the same caliber of technophobe that called it the webbernet and thought it really was just a series of tubes.
You know, he was making a coherent point about bandwidth limitations, it was just phrased in a silly way because that’s how you have to talk to laymen.
I thought it was a big truck.
series of tubes
Without those tech-illiterate morons, we wouldn’t have works of art like this though so it’s not all bad.
I bet actual personal letters are less than 1% of what USPS delivers these days
Certainly. It’s probably less than 1 in 50,000.
A mail straight from my living room to your living room, delivered instantly??? That’ll never work! Some kind of electronic mail??? The post office won’t stand for it!
