💸 Sending a file in 2017 | Zack Scholl
My good friend Jessie and I want to watch a documentary movie on turkeys together.1 I have the file on my computer and she does not, so I want to send this file to her directly2 from my computer. There are a couple of restrictions though: the turkey documentary is a ~1 GB file, Jessie lives 2,000 miles away in a different country, Jessie uses Windows OS and finally Jessie is not a programmer, and avoids anything that involves running something on the command-line.
How should I send the movie, in the fastest possible way, so we can start learning about turkeys together?3 Even though its 2017, the method I use to send a file from my computer to someone else’s computer will depend greatly on who that someone is and how comfortable they are with computers. Here’s a table I made of the methods I tried with a brief description of what I would do to send the file (with my reaction) and what Jessie does to receive the file (and her reaction).
Read the following for a more in-depth description of the methods. Basically after investigating a lot of the techniques I ended up making my own.4
