In 2001 Linux pranksters raced pigeons against a 40-gigabytes-per-second fiber line to test a concept a puckish American scientist first coined a decade earlier:CPIP--Carrier Pigeon Internet Protocol.
Back in November there was a curious story about the remains of a World War II carrierpigeon found in a British chimney with its coded message still intact.
Yet as inevitably turned out in order to be able to write a letter in less time that it would take to tattoo it onto the skin of a carrierpigeon you actually needed a Pentium with 8 MB or RAM in order to be able to use the new Windows.