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Cloud providers like AWS will do data import/export via racks of drives in a shipping crate, if you have that much data. [1] (Or just a few drives in the mail if you're not moving petabytes.)

On the other end of the enterpriseyness scale, but still an actual real-world use, there's SD cards attached to homing pigeons [2], in addition to numerous stunts or pranks ala RFC1149.

[1] https://aws.amazon.com/snowball/#Snowball_Data_Transfer

[2] https://www.denverpost.com/2007/06/22/homing-pigeons-get-dow...



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