If you find this at all interesting, you must read Mother Earth, Mother Board by Neal Stephenson - https://www.wired.com/1996/12/ffglass/. It's long but so, so good, both in the content and the writing.
So good and so long that I have a printed paper copy from around the early 00's. Younger Me must have bought a ream of paper to justify the expense of printing it lol
The Verge also did a big set of stories about this last April, it was an excellent read.
The Piece: https://www.theverge.com/c/24070570/internet-cables-undersea...
The Podcast episode: https://www.theverge.com/24131941/undersea-cables-pc-chips-q...
Discussion then: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40075402
After reading this, I don’t know if I can rightly describe myself as being in infrastructure engineering.
If you find this at all interesting, you must read Mother Earth, Mother Board by Neal Stephenson - https://www.wired.com/1996/12/ffglass/. It's long but so, so good, both in the content and the writing.
So good and so long that I have a printed paper copy from around the early 00's. Younger Me must have bought a ream of paper to justify the expense of printing it lol
I saw an episode of "Mighty Ships" just this weekend, which followed such a ship around as they were working on splicing one of these cables.
Very cool stuff.