The invisible seafaring industry that keeps the internet afloat
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Re: The invisible seafaring industry that keeps the internet afloat
#2I think I would love the article but the presentation makes it necessary hard to enjoy.
Re: The invisible seafaring industry that keeps the internet afloat
#3I think I would love the article but the presentation makes it necessary hard to enjoy.
Yes, you run the risk of sea sickness with all the unexpected screen scrolling direction changes.
Still a good and interesting article.
Re: The invisible seafaring industry that keeps the internet afloat
#4For those who have never seen it, Neal Stephenson's "Mother Earth Mother Board" for Wired in 1996 is the must-read classic of this genre. Wired seems to have paywalled it recently but it's available on archive.org
https://web.archive.org/web/20151107094324/https://www.wired...
Re: The invisible seafaring industry that keeps the internet afloat
#5For those who have never seen it, Neal Stephenson's "Mother Earth Mother Board" for Wired in 1996 is the must-read classic of this genre. Wired seems to have paywalled it recently but it's available on archive.org https://web.archive.org/web/20151107094324/https://www.wired...
And if you’re craving even more telecoms history after that (as I was when I read it a few years ago) Arthur C Clarke’s “How the World Was One” goes into the history of undersea cables and other telecoms technologies https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_the_World_Was_One
Re: The invisible seafaring industry that keeps the internet afloat
#6The article is fascinating but the website is a disaster.
This makes it marginally easier to read: https://archive.is/IpfNq
Re: The invisible seafaring industry that keeps the internet afloat
#7Isn't the title of this "The Cloud Under The Sea"?
Or at least it was on the other submissions days ago
Re: The invisible seafaring industry that keeps the internet afloat
#8ABC.au had a similarly named show on the topic back in December. I have to imagine they are related:
https://iview.abc.net.au/show/cloud-under-the-sea/video/NS23...
Re: The invisible seafaring industry that keeps the internet afloat
#9If you find this interesting, I highly recommend the book "Blind Man's Bluff: The Untold Story of American Submarine Espionage".
The book discusses "Operation Ivy Bells" whose mission was to tap the underwater Soviet communication lines during the Cold War. The submarine installed a recording pod onto Soviet cables and recorded everything.
How did they find the cables?
A technician told a story about growing up on the Mississippi river, and how you could often find a sign on the bank, telling you that there were underwater cables. He hypothesized that the same thing might exist in the Soviet union.
Sure enough, the submarine secretly crept into Soviet water, popped the periscope, and found a sign in Russian on the bank, saying be careful, underwater cables.
It's rumored that when the Soviets learned of this, they went down and found the pods. During disassembly, they found a stamped plate deep inside which read "Made in the USA."
Re: The invisible seafaring industry that keeps the internet afloat
#10I think I would love the article but the presentation makes it necessary hard to enjoy.
I actually loved the presentation of it, kudos to whichever team collaborated on it!