Your periodic reminder that the Internet actually is a Series of Tubes.
https://www.theverge.com/c/24070570/internet-cables-undersea-deep-repair-ships
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While it's going to be pretty dated by now, I really enjoyed Neal Stephenson' sprawling article on this subject for Wired back in the day. I even plugged it in a review I wrote for one of his novels. I should probably read it again.
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I probably should have checked that it wasn't paywalled first. Wayback Machine to the rescue: https://web.archive.org/web/20240204160000/https://www.wired.com/1996/12/ffglass/