The Secret Life of the 500+ Cables That Run the Internet - CNET
www.cnet.com/home/internet/features/the-secret-life-of-the-500-cables-that-run-the-internet
What Jamie wrote
While the Internet and the Cloud tend to live in this metaphorical non-place we know that they are real things. Clouds are massive data centers that in person would never conjure the image of a cloud. And the magical Internet that connects the world at some point is a garden hose thickness cable that is strung along the ocean floor connecting continents together. And there is a lot of them.
I loved the details on how these cables are made and "armored". I also found it wild that many of them are broken at any point in time. The Internet just routes around them. The time to fix one of these cables could take weeks.
All of this for us to send cat pictures and watch Tik Tok videos. 😋
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