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What's your experience with the sneakernet? (leminal.space)
submitted 3 days ago by CorrodedCranium@leminal.space to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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For those that don't know what the sneakernet is it's essentially transferring data through physical means. For example I would occasionally download TV shows to a hard drive for a friend who didn't have access to the internet after they thought they cancelled their subscription to their ISP and acquired hundreds of dollars of debt. You can find a Wikipedia page for the term sneakernet here.

Have any of you set something up with your neighbors or family? I'd include LAN setups where content as shared as part of the sneakernet. Kind of similar to how stuff has been distributed in Cuba.

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[–] bad_news@lemmy.billiam.net 34 points 3 days ago (3 children)

I'm old enough to remember when "sneakernet" meant 3.5" floppies, and was a pretty legit solution versus 2400 baud modems...

[–] renard_roux@beehaw.org 6 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Sneakernet is OK, but I still prefer IPoAC.

[–] Sparky@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 days ago

Ah you beat me to it

[–] Grimpen@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

That was exactly what I thought it was. Classic! And an official RFC (although introduced on April 1).

[–] nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 days ago

Yup 5-6 floppies and if one failed you could try to go back and copy one, but usually had to start over.

I got the Mac copy of Photoshop 4 from my high school this way with .sit files. It was like second to last floppy that failed (probably an ok AOL disk) and I had to go back the next day and copy it again. But it worked!

Not long after that a friend of mine got a ZIP drive, but it wasn’t SCSI, so it didn’t work with my computer. I didn’t get one until college (essential for a graphic designer in the late 90s).

[–] Grimpen@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 days ago

Right there with you!

My first experience with the internet was Gopher.