Brief History of Latency: Delivering a message by foot, horse, pigeon, ship and with visual signals!
Channel: Ilya Grigorik
Date: 15/09/2012

A brief look at the latency of delivering a message via a number of transports that have been used since ancient times (foot, horse, homing pigeon, ship, and visual signals), and how propagation, processing, and transmission delays affect the overall latency of the message.