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Researcher Runs IP Network Over Xylophones

Posted by timothy on from the like-y'-do dept.

joabj writes "Following up on experiments of running Internet Protocol(IP)-based networks with carrier pigeons or bongos, UofC grad student R. Stuart Geiger has demonstrated that it is possible to transmit simple ping requests across two computers using people playing xylophones. Throughput is roughly 1 baud, when the participants don't make any mistakes, or get bored and wander off. The OSI encapsulated model of networking makes this project doable, allowing humans to be inserted at Layer 1, the physical layer. Vint Cerf wasn't kidding when he used to say, 'IP on Everything.'"

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  1. Anyone else think of CE3K by rossdee · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Speilberg thought of communicating using musical notes 35 years ago