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There's a funny Internet joke called IP over Avian Carriers (RFC 1149). It's a pretend way to send messages using homing pigeons. It was meant as an April Fools' Day RFC joke. But it was actually used once to send a message in Bergen, Norway, on April 28, 2001!

In September 2009, a company in South Africa had a race between an 11-month-old pigeon and the Internet service called ADSL. The pigeon, named Winston, carried a 4 GB memory stick. It took Winston an hour and eight minutes to fly 80 kilometers (50 miles) with the data. In total, the data transfer took two hours, six minutes, and fifty-seven seconds. This was the same amount of time it took to transfer only 4% of the data using the ADSL!

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