Slight tangent: I used to live 90 miles from Cuba and whenever friends went to visit I would spend a lot of time downloading music and bouncing it to cassette tapes. My friends would give the...
Slight tangent: I used to live 90 miles from Cuba and whenever friends went to visit I would spend a lot of time downloading music and bouncing it to cassette tapes. My friends would give the tapes to cab drivers. It just made me happy to know I could spread good tunes around in an isolated country.
From the Article: Every week, more than a terabyte of data is packaged into external hard drives known as el paquete semanal (“the weekly package”). It is the internet distilled down to its...
From the Article:
Every week, more than a terabyte of data is packaged into external hard drives known as el paquete semanal (“the weekly package”). It is the internet distilled down to its purest, most consumable, and least interactive form: its content. This collection of video, song, photo, and text files from the outside world is cobbled together by various media smugglers known as paqueteros, and it travels around the island from person to person, percolating quickly from Havana to the furthest reaches in less than a day and constituting what would be known in techie lingo as a sneakernet: a network that transmits data via shoe rubber, bus, horseback, or anything else.
Slight tangent: I used to live 90 miles from Cuba and whenever friends went to visit I would spend a lot of time downloading music and bouncing it to cassette tapes. My friends would give the tapes to cab drivers. It just made me happy to know I could spread good tunes around in an isolated country.
From the Article:
Every week, more than a terabyte of data is packaged into external hard drives known as el paquete semanal (“the weekly package”). It is the internet distilled down to its purest, most consumable, and least interactive form: its content. This collection of video, song, photo, and text files from the outside world is cobbled together by various media smugglers known as paqueteros, and it travels around the island from person to person, percolating quickly from Havana to the furthest reaches in less than a day and constituting what would be known in techie lingo as a sneakernet: a network that transmits data via shoe rubber, bus, horseback, or anything else.