undersea cables
The undersea cable that make up much of the long haul data transfer on the internets. This map from the Guardian details the incident where a cable was damaged by a ships anchored and internet traffic was significantly affected. Hacker Tourist’s may be interested in the story surrounding many of these cables as reflected by Neal Stephenson in Wired magazine a few years ago.
update: dropped in michael surtee’s weekley link drop on july 4 2008
tags:infrastucture interesting internets map tubes«previously RFIDs are beautiful
muxtape-to-tape next»
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July 4th, 2008 at 11:59 am
[...] “undersea cables” [iamtheweather] EXCERPT: “The undersea cable that make up much of the long haul data transfer on the internets. This map from the Guardian details the incident where a cable was damaged by a ships anchored and internet traffic was significantly affected. Hacker Tourist’s may be interested in the story surrounding many of these cables as reflected by Neal Stephenson in Wired magazine a few years ago.” [...]