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- spepin, on 02/09/2009, -2/+430Wow, that's a lot of cables. Imagine it today?
http://www.telegeography.com/products/map_cable/im ... - Aadain, on 02/09/2009, -7/+346No, it went through some tubes. Some would say a series of tubes.
- angrycat, on 02/09/2009, -3/+325This message probably went through some cables so you could read it.
- Kucher, on 02/09/2009, -3/+257I PUT ON MY ROBE AND WIZARD HAT STOP
- shawns, on 02/09/2009, -8/+247It's a series of tubes
- MtheoryX, on 02/09/2009, -11/+245Canada was underwater?
- tbhurst, on 02/09/2009, -0/+161More than I would have guessed.
- architerp, on 02/09/2009, -2/+161Is Hawaii named Sandwich Island?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandwich_Islands
Why yes it was. I learned something today. - Gravey9, on 02/09/2009, -0/+134I would love to see that in High Res
- BaseballGuyCAA, on 02/09/2009, -5/+112In Soviet Russia, water runs cables through you!
- inactive, on 02/09/2009, -5/+109Imagine 1901 phone sex conversations
"lift up that hem and let me see those ankles of yours lovely!" - j3ff86, on 02/09/2009, -8/+112That's what she said.
- BossKey, on 02/09/2009, -1/+104I think my ISP still uses one of those 1901 cables...it would explain many things
- Mtdewrulz, on 02/09/2009, -3/+101Odd. I always thought it came on a big truck.
- PhoenixFlames, on 02/09/2009, -6/+103Quite bizarre in reality.
- richgustavson, on 02/09/2009, -3/+93I received an Internet the other day, but it was delayed because someone was clogging up the tubes.
- chadsmith729, on 02/09/2009, -1/+88that pic is OLD!
- Llanowar, on 02/09/2009, -1/+88^ That's what she said.
- santixx, on 02/09/2009, -0/+65Apparently you have to pay $250 to do so:
http://www.telegeography.com/products/map_cable/in ... - inactive, on 02/09/2009, -2/+60***** amazing. Hard to imagine we had accomplished stuff like that in 1901.
- MrCed, on 02/09/2009, -2/+55So is Russia!
- Rivfader, on 02/09/2009, -0/+51and I thought my server room was a *****....
- Lunarparcel, on 02/09/2009, -2/+53Shhh. We're not supposed to say anything about that, otherwise everyone will find out that Canadians are actually mystical merfolk.
- djetaine, on 02/09/2009, -2/+50biggest i could find at short notice
http://www.telegeography.com/products/map_cable/TG ... - Zippo, on 02/09/2009, -0/+48Looks like Newfoundland was the hub for North America's connection to Europe...
Too bad it's not that way today... maybe we'd have faster connections. - Dronez, on 02/09/2009, -3/+50Its not something you can just dump something on.
- levitron, on 02/09/2009, -0/+46I'd say that we had a pretty darn good representation of our planet, considering our lack of satellites...!
- SuperTonic, on 02/09/2009, -2/+47I'm on a boat.
- ScottoGato, on 02/09/2009, -1/+46They just don't make terrorism easy anymore. $250? Damn.
- diothar, on 02/09/2009, -0/+43I wonder if those tubes get clogged?
- zookee, on 02/09/2009, -0/+41And here is a great story on how the first transatlantic cable was laid - http://www.damninteresting.com/?p=646
- kd1s, on 02/09/2009, -1/+39.... . -.-- / -... .- -... -.-- --..-- / -.. .-. --- .--. / - .... --- ... . / -.- -. .. -.-. -.- . .-. ...
... - --- .--. - pfhayter, on 02/09/2009, -0/+37Pfft, you need to upgrade to the big truck model. I can just keep piling stuff on mine with no issue.
- nobleexperiment, on 02/09/2009, -2/+39Sandwich Islands are great with Spam.
- ACalcutt, on 02/09/2009, -1/+35Hey, baby. I bet you're hot. Stop.
Describe to me what you're doing to yourself right now. Stop.
Oh, yeah.
Oh, yeah...
Oh, nasty! - BCPneumatics, on 02/09/2009, -0/+33Nothing like sitting in a Western Union office paying $1/sentence to get your rocks off.
- inactive, on 02/09/2009, -0/+29Here's a closer look of the older cables: http://www.atlantic-cable.com/Cables/1858-66Atlant ...
- MrMongoose, on 02/09/2009, -0/+29Yes, actually, that's exactly how they did it. Saw a history channel documentary on it randomly at 4am one night. I think some of the original ones are actually still in use.
- inactive, on 02/09/2009, -1/+29I see that Telstra Australia is actually a good greeny and recycling...
- panicBoy, on 02/09/2009, -0/+28Lobster, durrr.
- EllimistX, on 02/09/2009, -2/+30What do you mean, "your people"?
- IphtashuFitz, on 02/09/2009, -0/+27And it's probably a safe bet that any one of those cables in use today could carry all the traffic from all those 1901 cables without breaking a sweat. So imagine just how much data is flowing along the bottom of the oceans these days...
- brainflakes, on 02/09/2009, -0/+27It's not a big horse drawn cart!
- inactive, on 02/09/2009, -2/+28From their website:
"The map includes references to over 200 cable systems and detailed information on critical locations where many submarine cables land, including: New York/New Jersey (US), Southern Florida (US), Cornwall (UK), Tokyo (Japan), Hong Kong (China) and Singapore."
Is that really something they should be advertising? - dajuggernaut, on 02/09/2009, -0/+25It was named after John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich and Lord of Ham And Cheese.
- dementedd, on 02/09/2009, -0/+24You mean telegraph sex conversations?
- pastafiend, on 02/09/2009, -0/+23Everyone knows Siam is the only territory connected to Australia, buried for ruining the 'best' risk strategy.
- MaverickAlex, on 02/09/2009, -0/+23How did these cables get installed? Some dude on a boat with a big spool of wire trailing out behind? Plus it be cool to know if any still exist or did they all rust away by now?
- IphtashuFitz, on 02/09/2009, -0/+23Cool. And compare those older cables to modern day ones:
http://www.nienergyholdings.com/img/Moyle_Intercon ...
http://www.naval-technology.com/contractor_images/ ... - thcobbs, on 02/09/2009, -2/+24Funny thing is... I think this is very similar to current internet backbone routes.
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