Submarine Cable Map
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Submarine Cable Map
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#2If you find this interesting, I can highly recommend Porthcurno Telegraph museum in Cornwall (UK). http://www.porthcurno.org.uk/
Its where many of the first underseas telegraph cables came ashore, and was a hub for the British Empire's telegraph network.
It was later dug deep into the rock to protect it during WW2.
A great day out- highly recommended.
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#3this network is probably the 8th man-made wonder of the world. it makes the Great Wall of China seem benign by comparison.
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#4I've always wondered where they are. Can you imagine just how long it took to wrap a wire around the whole world a few times over?
The thing that shocks me is how recently these were added. I was checking out the cables in Australia, expecting them to have been added in the 60's or something....however most are around the year 2000-2010.
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#5It's getting kind of dated now, but Neal Stephenson's "Mother Earth Mother Board" is great reading if you're interested in both the history and the process of laying submarine cable: http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/4.12/ffglass.html
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#6I've always wondered where they are. Can you imagine just how long it took to wrap a wire around the whole world a few times over? The thing that shocks me is how recently these were added. I was checking out the cables in Australia, expecting them to have been added in the 60's or something....however most are around the year 2000-2010.
Yeah, I was thinking the same thing, almost all the transatlantic cables seemed to have been laid in the 2000s as well. I ran across this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transatlantic_telecommunication...
Seems like each cable generally only has a life of 10-20 years.
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#7Check the landing visually http://cryptome.org/eyeball/cable/cable-eyeball.htm
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#9It's getting kind of dated now, but Neal Stephenson's "Mother Earth Mother Board" is great reading if you're interested in both the history and the process of laying submarine cable: http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/4.12/ffglass.html
Hacker tourism, in 1996! That's something which I think would be popular now, "Lonely Planet's Hacker Guide to World Travel"
detailing hackerspaces, interesting infrastructure tours, 1 or 2 day workshops/courses, low-cost travel and couchsurfing, etc...
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#10this network is probably the 8th man-made wonder of the world. it makes the Great Wall of China seem benign by comparison.
> seem benign by comparison.
So, this network is malicious by comparison?