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Samanth Subramanian on the Undersea Cables That Keep the Internet Alive
Listen to Odd Lots on Apple PodcastsListen to Odd Lots on SpotifyWatch Odd Lots on YouTubeSubscribe to the newsletterIn 2006, then-Senator Ted Stevens coined an infamous term for how to understand the internet: It's a "series of tubes." The funny thing is, that's a fairly accurate description. Underneath the world's oceans, miles and miles of fiber-optic cables send packets of information from one location to the next, serving as the backbone of the internet as know it. This infrastructure is de
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