Sneakernet

Sneakernet (alternatively known as armpitnet and floppynet) refers to the transfer of electronic information by physical means, including the manual delivery of cassette tapes, floppy disks, external hard drives, USB thumb drives, or other media from one computer to another.. 2003-07-02.Sneakernet by Eric Raymond, The Jargon File. Archived 2000-01-29. Even with the improvement of Internet speeds, users may resort to sneakernet when encountering network problems, firewalls, or an outage.Sneakernet, Computer Hope. 2021-08-16.Sneakernet Redux: Walk Your Data by Paul Boutin, Wired. 2002-08-26.
==History==
During the production of film series in the early 2000s, the crew were known to have hand-delivered digitized footage to the residence of director on 1st-generation iPods configured to function as external FireWire drives.The Frodo Franchise: The Lord of the Rings and Modern Hollywood by Kristin Thompson, . 2007-08-27.
===Bandwidth humor===
Many jokes about sneakernet bandwidth have been attributed to computer scientist , the author of MINIX.Computer Networks by Andrew S. Tanenbaum, Prentice-Hall. p.57. 1988. His example, first published in 1981, theorized about the bandwidth of a trained to carry floppy disks.Updated Textbook Explores Theoretical Basis of Networks by Sharon Fisher, InfoWorld 1989-02-06. This has since evolved into hypotheses involving situations ranging from s to trucks.Truckloads of hard disks by Kris De Decker, Low-Tech Magazine. 2009-02-13.
“Never underestimate the bandwidth of a filled with , or a filled with CD-ROMs.”. 2003-07-02.
==References==
==External links==
*Sneakernet at the Hand Wiki
* at Wikipedia
Category:Jargon
Category:Networking