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There's also Ethernet over barbed wire: http://www.sigcon.com/Pubs/edn/SoGoodBarbedWire.htm

Paraphrasing the old joke about getting a dry pair, must be an SBC customer.

wow

Back in the day I ran X.25 over an actual barbed wire fence for a customer. It connected a serial terminal in a field house at a local feedyard back to their SCO box in the main office. Probably about 1500 feet. It was reliable!

The HN post at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29440681

RevK is the owner of AAISP (an xkcd/806 compliant organisation).

https://xkcd.com/806/

https://www.revk.uk/2010/10/xkcd806-compliance.html?m=1

That's brilliant!