See who is in the air birds crossing the world right now

Dispatch a pigeon

The bird leaves immediately. It does not hurry.

Where is it going

📞Their phone number optional, only to guess their city

🏠Flying from 🎯Flying to

What it carries

✍Your name optional, goes on the note 📜The message 0 / 280

How long you will wait

⌛Speed

How it works

Honestly, there is no practical use for this.

Pick two cities. Anywhere in the world. We work out the great circle between them.
A pigeon flies it at 110 mph, without stopping, in real time.
You get a link and a ready written message to send them yourself.
They watch it cross the map for as long as that takes.
It lands and unrolls the note. That is the only place the message can be read.

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Sometimes the bird has an incident. It gets tired, or is clipped by a plane, or finds a bagel. It sits down a while, then carries on. Your message still arrives, just late and with an apology. Longer flights go wrong more often.

Two centuries of progress in telecommunications, carefully undone.
Slower than email on purpose, which turned out to be the hard part.