Top 10 Unreliable Networks

Top 10 less reliable networks than NSFnet's T3:

  • 10. Cans tied together with string during a San Fran 8.5 earthquake.
  • 9-1 co,ming
  •  9. The Arthritic's Morse Code net.
  •  8. AT&T's net during a transparent software upgrade.
  •  7. Bouncing signals off satellite, orbiting asteroid near Alpha Centauri.
  •  6. “Great Valleys Of The World”'s semaphore net.
  •  5. Chain-packet net (every time you get a packet, send off two more).
  •  4. Using carrier mackerel across the Sahara.
  •  3. Single Side Band transmitted from ground zero of a thermonuclear explosion.
  •  2. 100 monkeys sending at random (by chance, they'll eventually send the information you want sent).
  •  1. L.A.'s smog signal net.

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