[trollied]

A few years ago, revk (owner of an ISP in the UK) did ADSL over wet string: https://www.revk.uk/2017/12/its-official-adsl-works-over-wet...

[xhrpost]

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

[rlonstein]

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

[gorkish]

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!

[justcodin]

wow

[aidos]

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

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

[ComputerGuru]

https://xkcd.com/806/

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

[yosheli123]

That's brilliant!