Exotic technologies

Exotic technologies

There have been various attempts at transporting data over exotic media:

• IP over Avian Carriers was a humorous April fool's Request for Comments, issued as RFC 1149. It was implemented in real life in 2001.

• Extending the Internet to interplanetary dimensions via radio waves.

Both cases have a large round-trip delay time, which gives slow two-way communication, but doesn't prevent sending large amounts of information.