The Invisible Seafaring Industry That Keeps the Internet Afloat
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The Invisible Seafaring Industry That Keeps the Internet Afloat
The Secret Life of the 500+ Cables That Run the Internet
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You might well ask yourself the same question before diving into an article as long as this one. The answer is that we all depend heavily on wires, but we hardly ever think about them. Before learning about FLAG, I knew that data packets could get from America to Asia or the Middle East, but I had no idea how. I knew that it had something to do wit... See more
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Establishing connections became a problem. All Maersk's computers and servers had crashed, so email and the company's internal chat system were down. To his surprise, Andy also found that the contacts on employees' phones had been wiped clean, because they were configured to fetch contacts from online servers, which had now been deleted. The Maiden
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