> The fastest transport protocol was someone's car and a workday of wages. This is actually the entire premise of AWS Snowball: send someone a bunch of storage

> The fastest transport protocol was someone's car and a workday of wages. This is actually the entire premise of AWS Snowball: send someone a bunch of storage space, have them copy their data to that storage, then just ship the storage back with the data on it. It can be several orders of magnitude faster and easier than an internet transfer. Sneakernet really works. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sneakernet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sneakernet