What links the global Internet? Wires inside tubes no bigger than a garden hose.
With cell phone, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth almost everywhere, it sometime seems like we’ve finally ditched the cumbersome cords that tethering us and our gadgets down to earth. But in reality, we live in a world that’s more wired than ever before — it's just that those wires are strung along the bottom of the world’s oceans.

April 20, 2015 at 06:16AM
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