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Amazon's Snowmobile Is Actually a Truck Hauling a Huge Hard Drive (wired.com)
26 points by kposehn on Dec 2, 2016 | hide | past | favorite | 7 comments


Finally somewhere to store my porn collection.


Oh come on I didn't even know I could get downvoted on HN



The more I see it, the more I think that this is just an easter egg from some Amazon guys that wanted to bring in a badass truck in the middle of the re-Invent presentation.


A step up from SneakerNet ("You there, bring this bag of flashdrives to the office across the street, wouldya?"), I suppose.


Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway. — Tanenbaum, Andrew S. (1989). Computer Networks. New Jersey: Prentice-Hall. p. 57. ISBN 0-13-166836-6.


With the recent archive.org mirror announcement, I've had visions of Griswold-era Chevys (I think his was a Chevy) careening northward over the Canadian border.




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